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  • Ecology
  • Climate Change Biology
  • Conservation Biology

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  • Human-induced climate change is a major driver of biodiversity loss.
  • Predicting species extinction risk is challenging due to uncertainties in future geographical distributions.
  • Past climate change events offer insights into species' adaptive capacities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how macroecology and historical climate change data can refine extinction risk assessments.
  • To improve quantitative predictions of species' vulnerability to climate change.

Main Methods:

  • Review of recent advances in macroecology.
  • Analysis of species' responses to past climate change events.
  • Integration of ecological and paleoclimatological data.

Main Results:

  • Macroecological patterns provide a framework for understanding broad-scale species responses.
  • Historical data reveal mechanisms of species adaptation and vulnerability.
  • Combining these approaches enhances the accuracy of extinction risk projections.

Conclusions:

  • Advances in macroecology and understanding past climate change impacts are crucial for accurate extinction risk prediction.
  • Improved predictive models are essential for effective biodiversity conservation strategies in a changing climate.