Drainage divide migration and implications for climate and biodiversity

C He, J Braun, H Tang, X Yuan… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Drainage divides separate Earth's surface into individual river basins. Divide migration
impacts the evolution of landforms, regional climate, ecosystems and biodiversity. In this …

Health Psychology and Climate Change: Time to address humanity's most existential crisis

EK Papies, KS Nielsen, VA Soares - Health Psychology Review, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Climate change is an ongoing and escalating health emergency. It threatens the health and
wellbeing of billions of people, through extreme weather events, displacement, food …

Using ancient sedimentary DNA to forecast ecosystem trajectories under climate change

IG Alsos, V Boussange, DP Rijal… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ecosystem response to climate change is complex. In order to forecast ecosystem dynamics,
we need high-quality data on changes in past species abundance that can inform process …

Dispersal–diversity feedbacks and their consequences for macroecological patterns

A Alzate, O Hagen - Philosophical Transactions B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Dispersal is a key process in ecology and evolution. While the effects of dispersal on
diversity are broadly acknowledged, our understanding of the influence of diversity on …

Legacies of millennial-scale climate oscillations in contemporary biodiversity in eastern North America

D Fastovich, VC Radeloff… - … Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) has caused significant climate
changes over the past 90 000 years. Prior work has hypothesized that these millennial-scale …

Biodiversity responses to agricultural practices in cropland and natural habitats

J Zhao, L Yu, T Newbold, X Shen, X Liu, F Hua… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Largely driven by agricultural pressures, biodiversity has experienced great changes
globally. Exploring biodiversity responses to agricultural practices associated with …

Relicts in the mist: Two new frog families, genera and species highlight the role of Pantepui as a biodiversity museum throughout the Cenozoic

A Fouquet, PJR Kok, RS Recoder, I Prates… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
The iconic mountains of the Pantepui biogeographical region host many early-diverging
endemic animal and plant lineages, concurring with Conan Doyle's novel about an ancient …

Tectonic extension and paleoelevation influence mammalian diversity dynamics in the Basin and Range Province of western North America

TM Smiley, A Bahadori, ET Rasbury, WE Holt… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Landscape properties have a profound influence on the diversity and distribution of biota,
with present-day biodiversity hot spots occurring in topographically complex regions …

Ecological niche conservatism spurs diversification in response to climate change

H Qiao, AT Peterson, CE Myers, Q Yang… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Lengthy debate has surrounded the theoretical and empirical science of whether climatic
niche evolution is related to increased or decreased rates of biological diversification …

Artificial Intelligence for Complex Network: Potential, Methodology and Application

J Ding, C Liu, Y Zheng, Y Zhang, Z Yu, R Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Complex networks pervade various real-world systems, from the natural environment to
human societies. The essence of these networks is in their ability to transition and evolve …