Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

GT Pecl, MB Araújo, JD Bell, J Blanchard… - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND The success of human societies depends intimately on the living
components of natural and managed systems. Although the geographical range limits of …

Standards and best practices for monitoring and benchmarking insects

GA Montgomery, MW Belitz, RP Guralnick… - Frontiers in ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Benchmark studies of insect populations are increasingly relevant and needed amid
accelerating concern about insect trends in the Anthropocene. The growing recognition that …

Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land

J Lenoir, R Bertrand, L Comte, L Bourgeaud… - Nature ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
There is mounting evidence of species redistribution as climate warms. Yet, our knowledge
of the coupling between species range shifts and isotherm shifts remains limited. Here, we …

Climate change causes upslope shifts and mountaintop extirpations in a tropical bird community

BG Freeman, MN Scholer… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Montane species worldwide are shifting upslope in response to recent temperature
increases. These upslope shifts are predicted to lead to mountaintop extinctions of species …

The evolutionary genomics of species' responses to climate change

JA Aguirre-Liguori, S Ramírez-Barahona… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate change is a threat to biodiversity. One way that this threat manifests is through
pronounced shifts in the geographical range of species over time. To predict these shifts …

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

SL Pimm, CN Jenkins, R Abell, TM Brooks… - science, 2014 - science.org
Background A principal function of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is to “perform regular and timely assessments …

The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people

BR Scheffers, L De Meester, TCL Bridge, AA Hoffmann… - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Climate change impacts have now been documented across every
ecosystem on Earth, despite an average warming of only~ 1° C so far. Here, we describe the …

Increasing human dominance of tropical forests

SL Lewis, DP Edwards, D Galbraith - Science, 2015 - science.org
Tropical forests house over half of Earth's biodiversity and are an important influence on the
climate system. These forests are experiencing escalating human influence, altering their …

Expanding, shifting and shrinking: The impact of global warming on species' elevational distributions

BG Freeman, JA Lee‐Yaw, JM Sunday… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species are responding to climate warming by shifting their distributions toward
historically cooler regions, but the degree to which expansions at cool range limits are …

Small islands

LA Nurse, RF McLean, J Agard, LP Briguglio… - Climate change 2014 …, 2014 - hal.science
Current and future climate-related drivers of risk for small islands during the 21st century
include sea level rise (SLR), tropical and extratropical cyclones, increasing air and sea …