Climate change extinctions

MC Urban - Science, 2024 - science.org
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 …

Drivers and mechanisms of spontaneous plant community succession in abandoned PbZn mining areas in Yunnan, China

X Yuan, Z Guo, S Wang, L Zhao, M Yuan, Y Gao… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The drivers and mechanisms underlying succession and the spontaneous formation of plant
communities in mining wasteland remain largely unknown. This study investigated the use …

Nitrogen addition promotes conservative resource-use strategies via aggravating phosphorus limitation of evergreen trees in subtropical forest

C Zhao, Q Lin, D Tian, C Ji, H Shen, D Fan… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Leaf traits generally reflect plant strategy of resource acquisition and conservation. It
remains unclear whether leaf-trait syndrome of closely related species in a specific forest …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change impacts the distribution of Quercus section Cyclobalanopsis (Fagaceae), a keystone lineage in East Asian evergreen broadleaved forests

L Lin, XL Jiang, KQ Guo, A Byrne, M Deng - Plant Diversity, 2023 - Elsevier
East Asian evergreen broadleaved forests (EBFLs) harbor high species richness, but these
ecosystems are severely impacted by global climate change and deforestation. Conserving …

[HTML][HTML] Topographic depressions can provide climate and resource microrefugia for biodiversity

A Vojtkó, T Farkas, L Erdős, K Barta, E Anna… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Microrefugia are often located within topographically complex regions where stable
environmental conditions prevail. Most of the studies concerning the distributions of climate …

Evolution of the Correlated Genomic Variation Landscape Across a Divergence Continuum in the Genus Castanopsis

XY Chen, BF Zhou, Y Shi, H Liu… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The heterogeneous landscape of genomic variation has been well documented in
population genomic studies. However, disentangling the intricate interplay of evolutionary …

Distribution and Conservation of Ephedra rhytidosperma

C Tan, DK Ferguson, Y Yang - Ecology and Evolution, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
With global warming and increasingly intensified human activities, numerous species are on
the verge of extinction, ca. 28% of living species are threatened globally, although …

[HTML][HTML] Using Historical Habitat Shifts Driven by Climate Change and Present Genetic Diversity Patterns to Predict Evolvable Potentials of Taxus wallichiana Zucc. in …

F Li, C Wang, M Peng, W Meng, L Peng, D Chen - Diversity, 2024 - mdpi.com
Climate change is altering the geographical distribution and abundance of species.
Abundant genetic variation generally indicates a stronger adaptability and evolutionary …

Draft genome of Castanopsis chinensis, a dominant species safeguarding biodiversity in subtropical broadleaved evergreen forests

P Chen, JY Lian, B Wu, HL Cao, ZH Li, ZF Wang - BMC Genomic Data, 2023 - Springer
Objectives Castanopsis is the third largest genus in the Fagaceae family and is essentially
tropical or subtropical in origin. The species in this genus are mainly canopy-dominant trees …