Life on land exposes plants to varied abiotic and biotic environmental stresses. These
environmental drivers contributed to a large expansion of metabolic capabilities during land …

Climate change and biodiversity conservation are two of the most urgent challenges of the
twenty-first century. Current global climate models indicate that climate-related events will …

Aim Lichens and mosses play important functional roles in all terrestrial ecosystems,
particularly in tundra and drylands. As with all taxa, to maintain their current niche in a …

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 …

Aim Understanding how grain size affects our ability to characterize species responses to
ongoing climate change is of crucial importance in the context of an increasing awareness …

Biodiversity loss from climate and land use change is a global occurrence, but is of particular
concern in more prominent biodiverse and sensitive areas such as the Hindu Kush …

Global biodiversity is negatively affected by anthropogenic climate change. As species
distributions shift due to increasing temperatures and precipitation fluctuations, many …

Extinction risk is not randomly distributed among species but depends on species traits, their
relationship to climate and land use, and corresponding threats by global change. While …

The territory of modern central Donbass was considered as an experimental site for the
implementation of an ingredient biomonitoring program. Bryophytes were transplanted and …

Aim Oceanic islands possess unique floras with high proportions of endemic species. Island
floras are expected to be severely affected by changing climatic conditions as species on …