Climate change has ubiquitous impacts on ecosystems and threatens biodiversity globally. One of the most recognized are redistributions species, a process which can be hindered by habitat degradation. Protected areas (PAs) have been shown to beneficial for preserving reallocating species occurrences under climate change. Yet, studies investigating effects PA networks species' range shifts remai...

Reptiles are among the most threatened vertebrates worldwide. Habitat loss and fragmentation, human overexploitation, introduced invasive species, emerging diseases, environmental pollution global warming, severely increase risk of extinction population decline this taxon. A key strategy for protecting reptiles’ biodiversity has been creation maintenance protected areas. The focus work will be ...

introduction land use and land cover change (lucc) is a complex issue resulted from biophysical, socio-economic, cultural, organizational and technological factors in different spatial and temporal scales. lucc considered as an important threat to biodiversity as causing the fragmentation, natural vegetation destruction and natural areas isolation the regions which managed by environmental prot...