Mechanistic forecasts of species responses to climate change: the promise of biophysical ecology

NJ Briscoe, SD Morris, PD Mathewson… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A core challenge in global change biology is to predict how species will respond to future
environmental change and to manage these responses. To make such predictions and …

Atmospheric conditions create freeways, detours and tailbacks for migrating birds

J Shamoun-Baranes, F Liechti… - Journal of Comparative …, 2017 - Springer
The extraordinary adaptations of birds to contend with atmospheric conditions during their
migratory flights have captivated ecologists for decades. During the 21st century …

Bio‐ORACLE v2. 0: Extending marine data layers for bioclimatic modelling

J Assis, L Tyberghein, S Bosch… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation The availability of user‐friendly, high‐resolution global environmental datasets is
crucial for bioclimatic modelling. For terrestrial environments, WorldClim has served this …

A neonicotinoid insecticide reduces fueling and delays migration in songbirds

ML Eng, BJM Stutchbury, CA Morrissey - Science, 2019 - science.org
Neonicotinoids are neurotoxic insecticides widely used as seed treatments, but little is
known of their effects on migrating birds that forage in agricultural areas. We tracked the …

Globally consistent climate sensitivity of natural disturbances across boreal and temperate forest ecosystems

R Seidl, J Honkaniemi, T Aakala, A Aleinikov… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Disturbance regimes are changing in forests across the world in response to global climate
change. Despite the profound impacts of disturbances on ecosystem services and …

The environmental-data automated track annotation (Env-DATA) system: linking animal tracks with environmental data

S Dodge, G Bohrer, R Weinzierl, SC Davidson… - Movement ecology, 2013 - Springer
Background The movement of animals is strongly influenced by external factors in their
surrounding environment such as weather, habitat types, and human land use. With …

A method for computing hourly, historical, terrain‐corrected microclimate anywhere on earth

MR Kearney, PK Gillingham, I Bramer… - Methods in Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microclimates are the thermal and hydric environments organisms actually experience, and
estimates of them are increasingly needed in environmental research. The availability of …

[HTML][HTML] A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009

S Sharma, DK Gray, JS Read, CM O'reilly, P Schneider… - Scientific data, 2015 - nature.com
Global environmental change has influenced lake surface temperatures, a key driver of
ecosystem structure and function. Recent studies have suggested significant warming of …

Evaluating contributions of recent tracking-based animal movement ecology to conservation management

TE Katzner, R Arlettaz - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The use of animal-born sensors for location-based tracking and bio-logging in terrestrial
systems has expanded dramatically in the past 10 years. This rapid expansion has …

Widespread rapid reductions in body size of adult salamanders in response to climate change

NM Caruso, MW Sears, DC Adams… - Global Change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Reduction in body size is a major response to climate change, yet evidence in globally
imperiled amphibians is lacking. Shifts in average population body size could indicate either …