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in: THE BROAD SPECTRUM OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, Sevgi Maraklı,Merve Yılmazer, Editor, Gaziantep Üniversitesi Yayınları, Gaziantep, pp.51-73, 2024
There is no doubt that climate change will have a direct or indirect impact on millions of living things on Earth. Specifically, it is expected to have serious consequences for the biodiversity and distribution of species. It has become widely accepted that this alteration will have an adverse effect on biological diversity. There will be the greatest impact on endemic species, which are restricted to a small geographic area and have a limited tolerance for habitat changes. Although many countries are facing these changes, Türkiye, with its high endemic species diversity, is expected to be impacted the most by climate change. The Mediterranean region is particularly rich in endemic amphibian species diversity. It is predicted that this region will face both direct effects of climate change on habitats and more frequent extreme conditions, such as major fires, which are becoming increasingly common. Even though these impacts have already been observed, they are expected to become increasingly severe in the years to come, posing serious threats to the diversity and distribution of species, particularly endemic amphibians. According to the climate scenario, these conditions will be most severe if annual mean temperatures exceed 5°C.