Extending the natural adaptive capacity of coral holobionts

CR Voolstra, DJ Suggett, RS Peixoto… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation destroy coral reefs, the
ecosystem services they provide, and the livelihoods of close to a billion people who …

Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

SR Weiskopf, MA Rubenstein, LG Crozier… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity …

Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon

JS Albert, AC Carnaval, SGA Flantua, LG Lohmann… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Amazonian environments are being degraded by modern industrial and agricultural
activities at a pace far above anything previously known, imperiling its vast biodiversity …

[PDF][PDF] Point of departure and key concepts

R Ara Begum, R Lempert, A Elham, TA Benjaminsen… - 2022 - duo.uio.no
Executive Summary The IPCC Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report
addresses the challenges of climate action in the context of sustainable development with a …

Insect responses to heat: physiological mechanisms, evolution and ecological implications in a warming world

D González‐Tokman, A Córdoba‐Aguilar… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Surviving changing climate conditions is particularly difficult for organisms such as insects
that depend on environmental temperature to regulate their physiological functions. Insects …

Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review

F Festa, L Ancillotto, L Santini, M Pacifici… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how species respond to climate change is key to informing vulnerability
assessments and designing effective conservation strategies, yet research efforts on wildlife …

Local adaptation: causal agents of selection and adaptive trait divergence

SM Wadgymar, ML DeMarche… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Divergent selection across the landscape can favor the evolution of local adaptation in
populations experiencing contrasting conditions. Local adaptation is widely observed in a …

Birds advancing lay dates with warming springs face greater risk of chick mortality

JR Shipley, CW Twining, CC Taff… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
In response to a warming planet with earlier springs, migratory animals are adjusting the
timing of essential life stages. Although these adjustments may be essential for keeping …

Climate change and the global redistribution of biodiversity: substantial variation in empirical support for expected range shifts

MA Rubenstein, SR Weiskopf, R Bertrand… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Background Among the most widely predicted climate change-related impacts to biodiversity
are geographic range shifts, whereby species shift their spatial distribution to track their …

Phenological shifts of abiotic events, producers and consumers across a continent

T Roslin, L Antao, M Hällfors, E Meyke, C Lo… - Nature climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Ongoing climate change can shift organism phenology in ways that vary depending on
species, habitats and climate factors studied. To probe for large-scale patterns in associated …