Genomics for monitoring and understanding species responses to global climate change

L Bernatchez, AL Ferchaud, CS Berger… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
All life forms across the globe are experiencing drastic changes in environmental conditions
as a result of global climate change. These environmental changes are happening rapidly …

Cracking the code of biodiversity responses to past climate change

D Nogués-Bravo, F Rodríguez-Sánchez, L Orsini… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
How individual species and entire ecosystems will respond to future climate change are
among the most pressing questions facing ecologists. Past biodiversity dynamics recorded …

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

HJB Birks - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Resurrection genomics provides molecular and phenotypic evidence of rapid adaptation to salinization in a keystone aquatic species

MJ Wersebe, LJ Weider - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are increasingly cognizant of rapid adaptation in wild
populations. Rapid adaptation to anthropogenic environmental change is critical for …

Genetic adaptation as a biological buffer against climate change: Potential and limitations

LD MEESTER, R Stoks, KI Brans - Integrative zoology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change profoundly impacts ecosystems and their biota, resulting in range shifts,
novel interactions, food web alterations, changed intensities of host—parasite interactions …

Predictability of the impact of multiple stressors on the keystone species Daphnia

M Cuenca Cambronero, H Marshall, L De Meester… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Eutrophication and climate change are two of the most pressing environmental issues
affecting up to 50% of aquatic ecosystems worldwide. Mitigation strategies to reduce the …

Historical exposure to chemicals reduces tolerance to novel chemical stress in Daphnia (waterflea)

M Abdullahi, J Zhou, V Dandhapani… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Until the last few decades, anthropogenic chemicals used in most production processes
have not been comprehensively assessed for their risk and impact on wildlife and humans …

Evolutionary mechanisms underpinning fitness response to multiple stressors in Daphnia

M Cuenca‐Cambronero, JH Pantel… - Evolutionary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple stressors linked to anthropogenic activities can influence how organisms adapt and
evolve. So far, a consensus on how multiple stressors drive adaptive trajectories in natural …

Evolution of thermal tolerance in multifarious environments

M Cuenca Cambronero, J Beasley… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Species extinction rates are many times greater than the direst predictions made two
decades ago by environmentalists, largely because of human impact. Major concerns are …

Thermal tolerance in the keystone species Daphnia magna—a candidate gene and an outlier analysis approach

M Jansen, AN Geerts, A Rago, KI Spanier… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in temperature have occurred throughout Earth's history. However, current
warming trends exacerbated by human activities impose severe and rapid loss of …