Table S14: Summary of the numbers of species and size of geographic area uniquely identified by each of the biological traits used to assess overall
climate change vulnerability of amphibians. Traits highlighted in yellow identify the five most influential traits for uniquely identifying numbers of species
and those in red text identify these traits for geographic areas. Trait and trait group descriptions are shortened versions; full titles are shown in Table S2.
Specialised habitat
and/or microhabitat
requirements
Narrow
environmental
tolerances
Environmental
trigger
Interspecific
interaction
Sea level rise
Changes in
temperature
Changes in
precipitation
Poor dispersability
Habitat specialist
Microhabitat required
1,509
955
Species
qualifying
exclusively
based on
this trait
313
31
Narrow temperature tolerance
Narrow precipitation tolerance
1,520
1,520
188
184
12.3
12.0
6
7
811,622
39,127,730
1.1
53.8
10
2
128
128
316
1
0.1
13
0
0.0
11
1,775
Disease
1,307
169
11.0
9
1,136,479
1.6
9
0
Exposed to sea level rise
Changes in mean temperature
Changes in temperature variability
Changes in mean precipitation
Changes in precipitation variability
Limited dispersal ability
Geographical barriers
4
1,515
1,515
1,515
1,515
1,569
745
1
256
238
113
173
411
106
0.1
16.7
15.5
7.4
11.3
26.8
6.9
13
4
5
10
8
2
11
346
42,763,078
4,680,839
1,589,686
3,817,669
19,939,059
2,369,480
0.0
58.8
6.4
2.2
5.3
27.4
3.3
11
1
6
9
7
4
8
156
145
145
145
145
113
1,559
Poor evolvability
Slow turnover of generations
2,073
520
34.0
1
28,501,569
39.2
3
3,232
Low adaptive
capacity
Exposure
Sensitivity
Trait Group
Trait
Breeder on rainfall cue
Total number of vulnerable species/area
Total number of species
Species
qualifying
under this
trait
1,531
6,204
% of
total
susceptible
species
20.4
2.0
Rank of
importance by
species
% of
total
susceptible area
Rank of
importance by
area
3
12
Geographic
area (km2)
identified
exclusively
by this trait
427,953
4,956,569
0.6
6.8
10
5
Species
with
unknown
score for
this trait
156
164
72,683,082