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Climate change impacts on the threatened terrestrial vertebrates of the Pacific Islands Kumar, L and Shafapour Tehrany, M 2017, 'Climate change impacts on the threatened terrestrial vertebrates of the Pacific Islands', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, 5030, pp. 1-7. Document type: Journal Article Collection: Journal Articles Title Climate change impacts on the threatened terrestrial vertebrates of the Pacific Islands Author(s) Kumar, L Shafapour Tehrany, M Year 2017 Journal name Scientific Reports Volume number 7 Issue number 1 Article Number 5030 Start page 1 End page 7 Total pages 7 Publisher Nature Publishing Group Abstract The aim of this study was to undertake a broad-scale understanding of the distribution of vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered terrestrial vertebrate species in the Pacific and the assessment of impacts of climate change and sea level rise. 150 critically endangered, endangered and vulnerable terrestrial vertebrates found in 23 countries of the Pacific were linked to island susceptibility to climate change. Out of the 1779 islands making up the 23 countries, 674 of them hosted at least one species from the above categories. 84 of the 150 species are endemic to this study area and many of these occur on islands with high susceptibility to climate change, with many of them occurring on one island only. The species data, together with islands, was overlain with Mean Significant Wave Height (Hs) projections for 2081-2100 under RCP4.5 and 8.5, and further analysed for threat of extinction. A large number of critically endangered and endangered species fall in regions that have the highest Hs projections. Subject Geospatial Information Systems Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing DOI - identifier 10.1038/s41598-017-05034-4 Copyright notice © The Author(s) 2017. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ISSN 2045-2322 Related Links Link Description https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05034-4 Link to Published Version   Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 05 Sep 2017, 14:58:13 EST Filtered Full Citation counts: Cited 0 times in Scopus Article Altmetric details: Access Statistics: 72 Abstract Views  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 05 Sep 2017, 13:22:00 EST by Catalyst Administrator