Estudiando el impacto del cambio climático en la fauna subterráneael proyecto CAVEheAT
- Susana Pallarés 1
- Valeria Rizzo 2
- Jordi Comas Navarro 3
- Andrés Millán 4
- Aitor Montes
- Enric Lleopart 3
- Michele Spada 5
- Toni Pérez-Fernández 6
- Pedro Abellán 7
- David T. Bilton 8
- Ignacio Ribera 2
- David Sánchez-Fernández 1
- 1 Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo.
- 2 Institutde Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona.
- 3 Museu de Ciències Naturals (Zoologia), Barcelona.
- 4 Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia.
- 5 Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona.
- 6 Grupo de Espeleología de Villacarrillo (GEV).
- 7 Departmento de Zoología. Universidad de Sevilla.
- 8 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
ISSN: 2340-1346
Argitalpen urtea: 2018
Zenbakia: 16
Orrialdeak: 11-14
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: Gota a Gota
Laburpena
This paper presents the CAVEheAT research project (climatic change, thermal niche and conservation of subterranean biology). The goal of the project is to study the thermal niche (thermal tolerance range and acclimation capacity) of species (mainly beetles) with different degrees of specialization to subterranean environments and from different geographical areas. The initial hypothesis is that highly specialized subterranean species might have lost some of the physiological thermoregulatory mechanisms, as a consequence of a high energetic cost of such mechanisms in a stable environment but with severe resource restrictions. The project uses an experimental approach (physiological thermal tolerance experiments) to assess the capability of different species and populations to cope with climate change. The research team counts with the collaboration of researchers from other national and international universities, and a network of bioespeologists, among them the Speologist Group of Villacarrillo