Climate change and its impact on biodiversity and human welfare

KR Shivanna - Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, 2022 - Springer
Climate change refers to the long-term changes in temperature and weather due to human
activities. Increase in average global temperature and extreme and unpredictable weather …

Demographic consequences of phenological shifts in response to climate change

AM Iler, PJ CaraDonna, JRK Forrest… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
When a phenological shift affects a demographic vital rate such as survival or reproduction,
the altered vital rate may or may not have population-level consequences. We review the …

Light pollution is a driver of insect declines

ACS Owens, P Cochard, J Durrant, B Farnworth… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Insects around the world are rapidly declining. Concerns over what this loss means for food
security and ecological communities have compelled a growing number of researchers to …

Evolutionary and demographic consequences of phenological mismatches

ME Visser, P Gienapp - Nature ecology & evolution, 2019 - nature.com
Climate change has often led to unequal shifts in the seasonal timing (phenology) of
interacting species, such as consumers and their resource, leading to phenological …

Global shifts in the phenological synchrony of species interactions over recent decades

HM Kharouba, J Ehrlén, A Gelman… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Phenological responses to climate change (eg, earlier leaf-out or egg hatch date) are now
well documented and clearly linked to rising temperatures in recent decades. Such shifts in …

Impact of climate change on biodiversity and associated key ecosystem services in Africa: a systematic review

DW Sintayehu - Ecosystem health and sustainability, 2018 - spj.science.org
Introduction: Biodiversity and biodiversity-based ecosystems services are intrinsically
dependent on the climate. During the twentieth century, climate change has posed major …

Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice

M Huss, B Bookhagen, C Huggel, D Jacobsen… - Earth's …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The cryosphere in mountain regions is rapidly declining, a trend that is expected to
accelerate over the next several decades due to anthropogenic climate change. A cascade …

Phenological sensitivity to climate across taxa and trophic levels

SJ Thackeray, PA Henrys, D Hemming, JR Bell… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Differences in phenological responses to climate change among species can desynchronise
ecological interactions and thereby threaten ecosystem function. To assess these threats …

Characterization, costs, cues and future perspectives of phenotypic plasticity

HM Schneider - Annals of botany, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Plastic responses of plants to the environment are ubiquitous. Phenotypic
plasticity occurs in many forms and at many biological scales, and its adaptive value …

Demographic consequences of phenological asynchrony for North American songbirds

C Youngflesh, GA Montgomery… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Changes in phenology in response to ongoing climate change have been observed in
numerous taxa around the world. Differing rates of phenological shifts across trophic levels …