Articles | Volume 25, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-25-221-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-25-221-2025
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04 Dec 2025
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Identifying refugia from the synergistic threats of climate change and invasive species

Finnbar Lee, Ian A. K. Kusabs, George L. W. Perry, and Calum MacNeil

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Catfish and kōura data and R code Finnbar Lee https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17372820

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Climate change may reduce available habitat for native species, while simultaneously increasing suitable habitat for invasive species.To identify climate refugia that are both suitable for native species and unsuitable for invasive species, we propose a refugia habitat identification metric based on ecological niche modelling. We demonstrate the utility of the metric via a case study of a freshwater crayfish which is threatened by both climate change and the invasive brown bullhead catfish.
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