People have been recording wildlife for centuries and the resulting datasets lead to
important scientific research. The Biological Records Centre (BRC), established in 1964, is a …

Global environmental changes have been driving large-scale shifts in the distributions of
species and in the composition of biological communities. This has thrown the continuing …

Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Our current 1.1 C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

Impacts of climate change on natural and human systems will become increasingly severe
as the magnitude of climate change increases. Climate change adaptation interventions to …

Abstract Protected Areas (PAs) have been a cornerstone of conservation policy in the past
but are generally static and thus might be less useful under climate change as species move …

There have been recent renewed commitments to increase the extent of protected areas to
combat the growing biodiversity crisis but the underpinning evidence for their effectiveness …

Climate change is driving species to shift their distributions toward high altitudes and
latitudes, while habitat loss and fragmentation may hamper species ability to follow their …

Climate change is increasingly altering the composition of ecological communities, in
combination with other environmental pressures such as high‐intensity land use. Pressures …

Climate change vulnerability assessments are commonly used to identify species at risk
from global climate change, but the wide range of methodologies available makes it difficult …