Vulnerabilidade de répteis Squamata frente às mudanças climáticas e o papel das áreas de proteção na conservação das espécies

Abstract

The present study aimed to evaluate the vulnerability of Lepidosauria to climate change considering different taxonomic and geographic levels, to measure the impact of climate changes in neotropical systems, to delimit the role of protected areas in species conservation and to elaborate means to sensitize the non-scientific community about the need of to preserve these species and their environments. Thus, in the first chapter the main patterns of climate change effects on Lepidosauria were showed based in the available literature. The second chapter aimed to evaluate the impacts of climate change on the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, so that in the third chapter the vulnerability of the endemic lizard from the Archipelago, Trachylepis atlantica, could be measured based on biotic and abiotic factors. Similarly, in the fourth chapter the impacts of climate change on the Amazonian biome were evaluated, so that in the chapters five, six and seven the vulnerability of several Amazonian species could be evaluated through different approaches in community, species and population s level. Finally, in chapters eight and nine the results obtained in previously chapters were translated into a language more accessible to different publics, aiming to promote the science democratization.