Accelerated shifts in terrestrial life zones under rapid climate change

PR Elsen, EC Saxon, BA Simmons… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid climate change is impacting biodiversity, ecosystem function, and human well‐being.
Though the magnitude and trajectory of climate change are becoming clearer, our …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change implications for tropical islands: Interpolating and interpreting statistically downscaled GCM projections for management and planning

AH Khalyani, WA Gould, E Harmsen… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The potential ecological and economic effects of climate change for tropical islands were
studied using output from 12 statistically downscaled general circulation models (GCMs) …

Assessing biome boundary shifts under climate change scenarios in India

A Chakraborty, PK Joshi, A Ghosh, G Areendran - Ecological indicators, 2013 - Elsevier
Climate change and its cascading impacts are being increasingly recognized as a major
challenge across the globe. Climate is one of the most critical factors affecting biomes and …

Assessing the vulnerability of military installations in the coterminous United States to potential biome shifts resulting from rapid climate change

RH Odom, WM Ford - Environmental Management, 2020 - Springer
Climate-change impacts to Department of Defense (DoD) installations will challenge military
mission and natural resource stewardship efforts by increasing vulnerability to flooding …

Uncertainty maps for model-based global climate classification systems

A Navarro, A Merino, E García-Ortega, FJ Tapiador - Scientific Data, 2025 - nature.com
Climate classification systems (CCSs) are emerging as essential tools in climate change
science for mitigation and adaptation. However, their limitations are often misunderstood by …

[HTML][HTML] Climate classification systems for validating Earth System Models

A Navarro, FJ Tapiador - Environmental Research: Climate, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate classification systems (CCSs) were developed in the 19th century to explain the
global distribution of plants and animals, but were given a new life in the Earth physics …

Uncertainties in measuring precipitation hinders precise evaluation of loss of diversity in biomes and ecotones

A Navarro, G Lee, R Martín, FJ Tapiador - npj Climate and Atmospheric …, 2024 - nature.com
Assessing changes in the distribution of biological communities that share a climate
(biomes) is essential for estimating their vulnerability to climate change. We use CMIP6 …

Bioclimatic changes in ecoregions of southern South America: Trends and projections based on Holdridge life zones

MR Derguy, S Martinuzzi, M Arturi - Austral Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Modelling the potential impacts of future climate on ecosystems provides important
information for environmental planning and management. The Holdridge life zones system …

Climate classification in Turkey: a case study evaluating Holdridge life zones

MK Tekin, H Tatli, T Koç - Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2021 - Springer
The Holdridge life zone (HLZ) method is applied to map potential vegetation types in Turkey.
The HLZ map is compared to a map of actual vegetation in order to assess the degradation …

[HTML][HTML] A new algorithm to determine the spatial coverage of carob (Neltuma piurensis) by ecological floor: Chira-Piura River Basin case

C Aldana, J Lloret, W Moncada, JR Acuña… - Remote Sensing …, 2024 - Elsevier
The carob tree (Neltuma piurensis) is characteristic of the forests of northern Peru, withstand
extreme climatic events such as “El Niño” and droughts, in addition to the influence of …