15.7 Summary and Conclusions DGVMs exploit the power of modern computers and
computational methods to yield a predictive description of land ecosystem processes that …

Climate change poses a challenge to the conventional approach to biodiversity
conservation, which relies on fixed protected areas, because the changing climate is …

Aim We describe and use a model, SHIFT, to estimate potential migration due to climate
change over the next 100 years. Location Eastern United States. Methods Five species …

The aim of this study is to evaluate the possible consequences of climate change on a
representative sample of forest herbs in Europe. A fuzzy climatic envelope was used to …

Potential changes in tree species richness and forest community types were evaluated for
the eastern United States according to five scenarios of future climate change resulting from …

This chapter summarizes research on seed dispersal vectors (water, wind and animals), and
the factors (including seed size and chemical composition, and plant habit) that determine …

Aim Beringia, far north‐eastern Siberia and north‐western North America, was largely
unglaciated during the Pleistocene. Although this region has long been considered an ice …

Climate change presents a potentially severe threat to biodiversity. Species will be required
to disperse rapidly through fragmented landscapes in order to keep pace with the changing …

Climate is often singled out as the primary range limiting factor at large scales, while other
environmental factors, notably soil, are thought to predominate at smaller scales. However …

Abstract The Mediterranean Basin is expected to be more strongly affected by ongoing
global climate change than most other regions of the earth. Given the magnitude of …