Nonvascular photoautotrophs (NVP), including bryophytes, lichens, terrestrial algae, and
cyanobacteria, are increasingly recognized as being essential to ecosystem functioning in …

This paper provides an overview of bioclimatic models applied to lichen species, supporting
their potential use in this context as indicators of climate change risk. First, it provides a brief …

Epiphytic lichens are good ecological indicators of climatic and environmental changes. The
physiology of lichens is related with their morphology and anatomy (traits) and thus the …

Climate change is expected to cause irreversible changes to biodiversity, but predicting
those risks remains uncertain. I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections …

Many global ecosystems have undergone shifts in fire regimes in recent decades, such as
changes in fire size, frequency, and/or severity. Recent research shows that increases in fire …

Tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) have been promoted as indicators of forest biodiversity
and to guide conservation practices. Ensuring the provision of diverse TreMs in the long …

Abstract Background and Aims There is growing interest in the functional ecology of
poikilohydric non-vascular photoautotrophs (NVPs), including 'cryptogamic'bryophytes and …

Abstract Background and Aims Climate change is expected to have major impacts on high
alpine and arctic ecosystems in the future, but empirical data on the impact of long-term …

Climate change is already causing considerable reductions in biodiversity in all terrestrial
ecosystems. These consequences are expected to be exacerbated in biomes that are …

Several studies have evaluated lichen responses in terms of shifts in species climate
suitability, species richness and community composition. In contrast, patterns of co …