Climate is an important driver of ungulate life-histories, population dynamics, and migratory behaviors, and can affect the growth, development, fecundity, dispersal, and demographic trends of populations. Changes in temperature and precipitation, and resulting shifts in plant phenology, winter severity, drought and wildfire conditions, invasive species distribution and abundance, predation, and disease have the potential to directly or indirectly affect ungulates. However, ungulate responses to climate variability and change are not uniform and vary by species and geography. Here, we present a systematic map protocol aiming to describe the abundance and distribution of evidence on the effects of climate variability and change on ungulate life-histories, population dynamics, and migration in North America. This map will help to identify knowledge gaps and clusters of evidence, and can be used to inform future research directions and adaptive management strategies. We will catalogue evidence on how climate variability and change affect the life-histories, population dynamics, and migration patterns of the fifteen ungulate species native to North America. We will search both academic and grey literature, using academic journal databases and specialist websites. Articles will be screened for inclusion at the title/abstract and full-text levels, and data will be extracted from articles that pass the full-text review. These data will be summarized quantitatively, visually, and with a narrative review to describe the distribution and abundance of evidence on the effects of climate variability and change on ungulates in North America.

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气候变化和变化对北美有蹄类动物的生活史，种群动态和迁徙有什么影响？系统的地图协议

气候是有蹄类动物的生活史，人口动态和迁徙行为的重要驱动力，并且会影响人口的增长，发展，繁殖力，传播和人口趋势。温度和降水的变化以及由此产生的植物物候变化，冬季严峻性，干旱和野火条件，入侵物种的分布以及丰度，捕食和疾病的变化都有可能直接或间接影响有蹄类动物。但是，有蹄类动物对气候变化和变化的反应并不统一，并且因物种和地理位置而异。在这里，我们提出了一个系统的地图协议，旨在描述有关气候变化和变化对有蹄类动物的生活史，人口动态和北美迁徙的影响的大量证据和分布。该地图将有助于识别知识差距和证据群，并可用于指导未来的研究方向和适应性管理策略。我们将对气候变率和变化如何影响北美本地15种有蹄类动物的生活史，种群动态和迁移模式进行分类的证据。我们将使用学术期刊数据库和专业网站搜索学术和灰色文献。将对文章进行筛选，以包括在标题/摘要和全文级别，并从通过全文审阅的文章中提取数据。这些数据将被定量，直观地总结，并进行叙述性回顾，以描述有关气候变化和变化对北美有蹄类动物的影响的证据的分布和丰富性。