Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda

P De Frenne, J Lenoir, M Luoto… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Forest microclimates contrast strongly with the climate outside forests. To fully understand
and better predict how forests' biodiversity and functions relate to climate and climate …

Survive a warming climate: insect responses to extreme high temperatures

CS Ma, G Ma, S Pincebourde - Annual Review of Entomology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Global change includes a substantial increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme high
temperatures (EHTs), which influence insects at almost all levels. The number of studies …

[HTML][HTML] A high-resolution canopy height model of the Earth

N Lang, W Jetz, K Schindler, JD Wegner - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
The worldwide variation in vegetation height is fundamental to the global carbon cycle and
central to the functioning of ecosystems and their biodiversity. Geospatially explicit and …

Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

F Zellweger, P De Frenne, J Lenoir, P Vangansbeke… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Climate warming is causing a shift in biological communities in favor of warm-affinity species
(ie, thermophilization). Species responses often lag behind climate warming, but the …

Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the E uropean A lps

Y Vitasse, S Ursenbacher, G Klein… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mountain areas are biodiversity hotspots and provide a multitude of ecosystem services of
irreplaceable socio‐economic value. In the European Alps, air temperature has increased at …

Global maps of soil temperature

JJ Lembrechts, J van den Hoogen, J Aalto… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from
estimates of air temperature in open areas at around 2 m above the ground. These climatic …

Microclimate and forest density drive plant population dynamics under climate change

P Sanczuk, K De Pauw, E De Lombaerde… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Macroclimatic changes are impacting ecosystems worldwide. However, a large portion of
terrestrial species live under conditions where impacts of macroclimate change are buffered …

[HTML][HTML] Relationship of insect biomass and richness with land use along a climate gradient

J Uhler, S Redlich, J Zhang, T Hothorn… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recently reported insect declines have raised both political and social concern. Although
the declines have been attributed to land use and climate change, supporting evidence …

Tropical and Mediterranean biodiversity is disproportionately sensitive to land-use and climate change

T Newbold, P Oppenheimer, A Etard… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Global biodiversity is undergoing rapid declines, driven in large part by changes to land use
and climate. Global models help us to understand the consequences of environmental …

ForestTemp–Sub‐canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests

S Haesen, JJ Lembrechts, P De Frenne… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological research heavily relies on coarse‐gridded climate data based on standardized
temperature measurements recorded at 2 m height in open landscapes. However, many …