Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases

A Pfenning-Butterworth, LB Buckley… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024 - thelancet.com
The concurrent pressures of rising global temperatures, rates and incidence of species
decline, and emergence of infectious diseases represent an unprecedented planetary crisis …

Forest tree species adaptation to climate across biomes: Building on the legacy of ecological genetics to anticipate responses to climate change

L Leites, M Benito Garzón - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Intraspecific variation plays a critical role in extant and future forest responses to climate
change. Forest tree species with wide climatic niches rely on the intraspecific variation …

Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates

G Murali, T Iwamura, S Meiri, U Roll - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme thermal events are increasing and are
projected to further increase by the end of the century,. Despite the considerable …

Warming-induced tree growth may help offset increasing disturbance across the Canadian boreal forest

J Wang, AR Taylor, L D'Orangeville - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - pnas.org
Large projected increases in forest disturbance pose a major threat to future wood fiber
supply and carbon sequestration in the cold-limited, Canadian boreal forest ecosystem …

The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change

CH Trisos, C Merow, AL Pigot - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
As anthropogenic climate change continues the risks to biodiversity will increase over time,
with future projections indicating that a potentially catastrophic loss of global biodiversity is …

Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally

AL Pigot, C Merow, A Wilson, CH Trisos - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change is already exposing species to dangerous temperatures driving widespread
population and geographical contractions. However, little is known about how these risks of …

Post-2020 biodiversity targets need to embrace climate change

A Arneth, YJ Shin, P Leadley, C Rondinini… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Recent assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and
the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services …

Beyond buying time: the role of plasticity in phenotypic adaptation to rapid environmental change

RJ Fox, JM Donelson, C Schunter… - … transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How populations and species respond to modified environmental conditions is critical to
their persistence both now and into the future, particularly given the increasing pace of …

Intraspecific trait variation in plants: a renewed focus on its role in ecological processes

AC Westerband, JL Funk, KE Barton - Annals of botany, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Investigating the causes and consequences of intraspecific trait variation (ITV)
in plants is not novel, as it has long been recognized that such variation shapes biotic and …

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 …