Hydrologic refugia, plants, and climate change

BC McLaughlin, DD Ackerly, PZ Klos… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate, physical landscapes, and biota interact to generate heterogeneous hydrologic
conditions in space and over time, which are reflected in spatial patterns of species …

Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

AD Barnosky, EA Hadly, P Gonzalez, J Head, PD Polly… - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND The pace and magnitude of human-caused global change has accelerated
dramatically over the past 50 years, overwhelming the capacity of many ecosystems and …

Sequence locally, think globally: the Darwin Tree of Life Project

Darwin Tree of Life Project Consortium - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - pnas.org
The goals of the Earth Biogenome Project—to sequence the genomes of all eukaryotic life
on earth—are as daunting as they are ambitious. The Darwin Tree of Life Project was …

Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering

AJ Suggitt, RJ Wilson, NJB Isaac, CM Beale… - Nature Climate …, 2018 - nature.com
Protecting biodiversity against the impacts of climate change requires effective conservation
strategies that safeguard species at risk of extinction. Microrefugia allowed populations to …

A resilient and connected network of sites to sustain biodiversity under a changing climate

MG Anderson, M Clark, AP Olivero, AR Barnett… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Motivated by declines in biodiversity exacerbated by climate change, we identified a network
of conservation sites designed to provide resilient habitat for species, while supporting …

Identifying long-term stable refugia for relict plant species in East Asia

CQ Tang, T Matsui, H Ohashi, YF Dong… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Today East Asia harbors many “relict” plant species whose ranges were much
larger during the Paleogene-Neogene and earlier. The ecological and climatic conditions …

Climatic microrefugia under anthropogenic climate change: implications for species redistribution

J Lenoir, T Hattab, G Pierre - Ecography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The role of modern climatic microrefugia is a neglected aspect in the study of biotic
responses to anthropogenic climate change. Current projections of species redistribution at …

Pleistocene mitochondrial genomes suggest a single major dispersal of non-Africans and a Late Glacial population turnover in Europe

C Posth, G Renaud, A Mittnik, DG Drucker, H Rougier… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
How modern humans dispersed into Eurasia and Australasia, including the number of
separate expansions and their timings, is highly debated [1, 2]. Two categories of models …

[HTML][HTML] Managing climate change refugia for climate adaptation

TL Morelli, C Daly, SZ Dobrowski, DM Dulen… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Refugia have long been studied from paleontological and biogeographical perspectives to
understand how populations persisted during past periods of unfavorable climate. Recently …

Animal-borne sensors as a biologically informed lens on a changing climate

D Ellis-Soto, M Wikelski, W Jetz - Nature Climate Change, 2023 - nature.com
As climate change transforms the biosphere, more comprehensive and biologically relevant
measurements of changing conditions are needed. Traditional climate measurements are …