Extreme weather and climate events with ecological relevance: a review

CC Ummenhofer, GA Meehl - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Robust evidence exists that certain extreme weather and climate events, especially daily
temperature and precipitation extremes, have changed in regard to intensity and frequency …

The many possible climates from the Paris Agreement's aim of 1.5 C warming

SI Seneviratne, J Rogelj, R Séférian, R Wartenburger… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The United Nations' Paris Agreement includes the aim of pursuing efforts to limit
global warming to only 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels. However, it is not clear what the …

Insects and recent climate change

CA Halsch, AM Shapiro, JA Fordyce… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Insects have diversified through more than 450 million y of Earth's changeable climate, yet
rapidly shifting patterns of temperature and precipitation now pose novel challenges as they …

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

CA Hallmann, M Sorg, E Jongejans, H Siepel… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Global declines in insects have sparked wide interest among scientists, politicians, and the
general public. Loss of insect diversity and abundance is expected to provoke cascading …

A window to the world of global insect declines: Moth biodiversity trends are complex and heterogeneous

DL Wagner, R Fox, DM Salcido… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Moths are the most taxonomically and ecologically diverse insect taxon for which there exist
considerable time-series abundance data. There is an alarming record of decreases in moth …

The projected effect on insects, vertebrates, and plants of limiting global warming to 1.5 C rather than 2 C

R Warren, J Price, E Graham, N Forstenhaeusler… - Science, 2018 - science.org
In the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the United Nations is pursuing efforts to limit
global warming to 1.5° C, whereas earlier aspirations focused on a 2° C limit. With current …

Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation

RJ Wilson, R Fox - Ecological Entomology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
1. Insects have emerged as causes célèbres for widespread concern about human effects
on global biodiversity. Here, we consider how insects provide opportunities both to …

Fertility and mortality impacts of thermal stress from experimental heatwaves on different life stages and their recovery in a model insect

K Sales, R Vasudeva… - Royal Society Open …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
With climate change creating a more volatile atmosphere, heatwaves that create thermal
stress for living systems will become stronger and more frequent. Using the flour beetle …

The implications of the United Nations Paris Agreement on climate change for globally significant biodiversity areas

R Warren, J Price, J VanDerWal, S Cornelius, H Sohl - Climatic change, 2018 - Springer
Climate change is already affecting species and their distributions. Distributional range
changes have occurred and are projected to intensify for many widespread plants and …

The direct and indirect effects of extreme climate events on insects

A Filazzola, SF Matter, JS MacIvor - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Extreme climate events are predicted to increase in the future, which will have significant
effects on insect biodiversity. Research into this area has been rapidly expanding, but …