AIRCC-LAB/AIRCC-BioDiv

AIRCC-BioDiv

AIRCC-BioDiv: The Assessment of Impacts and Risks of Climate Change on Biodiversity: 

A tool for an exploration of global risks for biodiversity under future climate change scenarios

AIRCC-BioDiv allows the generation of future projections of species richness losses for four terrestrial vertebrate groups (amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds). The software allows using a full range of climate models available in CMIP5 and the four standard emissions scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP6.0, and RCP8.5) and user-defined ad hoc emissions scenarios. This software allows the user to use a range of probabilistic risk metrics that include estimating probabilities of exceeding certain species loss thresholds per cell (e.g., 20%, 30%, 50%); identifying dates where those thresholds are exceeded; and estimating multivariate risk hotspots, i.e., sites where similar biodiversity losses converge for the four taxonomic groups. These metrics can be calculated year-by-year or by user-defined time horizons. This tool allows users to visualize the regions where the most significant climate risks to terrestrial vertebrate richness are projected.

Julián A. Velasco; Carlos Luna-Aranguré; Constantino González-Salazar; Francisco Estrada; Oscar Calderón-Bustamante; Juan D. Vásquez-Restrepo; Atziri A. Ibarra-Reyes; Leticia M. Ochoa-Ochoa; Adrian García-Rodríguez. Manuscript in preparation.

Software development by:

Oscar Calderón-Bustamante; Julián A. Velasco; Francisco Estrada Porrúa; Constantino González-Salazar

 The software is provided free of charge, and, therefore, on an "as is" basis, without warranty of any kind, explicitly or implicitly, including without limitation the warranties that it is free of defects, virus free, able to operate on an uninterrupted basis, fit for a particular purpose or non-interfering. Copyright, 2023