Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

SR Weiskopf, MA Rubenstein, LG Crozier… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity …

Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change

JM Alexander, L Chalmandrier, J Lenoir… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid climatic changes and increasing human influence at high elevations around the world
will have profound impacts on mountain biodiversity. However, forecasts from statistical …

Invasive alien plants benefit more from clonal integration in heterogeneous environments than natives

YJ Wang, H Müller‐Schärer, M van Kleunen… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
What confers invasive alien plants a competitive advantage over native plants remains open
to debate. Many of the world's worst invasive alien plants are clonal and able to share …

Comparing temperature data sources for use in species distribution models: From in‐situ logging to remote sensing

JJ Lembrechts, J Lenoir, N Roth… - Global Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Although species distribution models (SDMs) traditionally link species occurrences to
free‐air temperature data at coarse spatio‐temporal resolution, the distribution of organisms …

Global patterns of intraspecific leaf trait responses to elevation

G Midolo, P De Frenne, N Hölzel… - Global change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Elevational gradients are often used to quantify how traits of plant species respond to abiotic
and biotic environmental variations. Yet, such analyses are frequently restricted spatially …

Climate change amplifies plant invasion hotspots in Nepal

UB Shrestha, BB Shrestha - Diversity and Distributions, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climate change has increased the risk of biological invasions, particularly by increasing
the climatically suitable regions for invasive alien species. The distribution of many native …

Human disturbance and upward expansion of plants in a warming climate

M Dainese, S Aikio, PE Hulme, A Bertolli… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
Climate change is expected to trigger an upward expansion of plants in mountain regions,
and, although there is strong evidence that many native species have already shifted their …

Risks posed by invasive species to the provision of ecosystem services in Europe

B Gallardo, S Bacher, AM Barbosa, L Gallien… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Invasive species significantly impact biodiversity and ecosystem services, yet understanding
these effects at large spatial scales remains a challenge. Our study addresses this gap by …

The poleward naturalization of intracontinental alien plants

Z Zhang, Q Yang, TS Fristoe, W Dawson, F Essl… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Plant introductions outside their native ranges by humans have led to substantial ecological
consequences. While we have gained considerable knowledge about intercontinental …

Running off the road: roadside non-native plants invading mountain vegetation

KL McDougall, J Lembrechts, LJ Rew, S Haider… - Biological …, 2018 - Springer
Prevention is regarded as a cost-effective management action to avoid unwanted impacts of
non-native species. However, targeted prevention can be difficult if little is known about the …