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 …

Gene-by-environment interactions in plants: Molecular mechanisms, environmental drivers, and adaptive plasticity

JD Napier, RW Heckman, TE Juenger - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Plants demonstrate a broad range of responses to environmental shifts. One of the most
remarkable responses is plasticity, which is the ability of a single plant genotype to produce …

Beyond buying time: the role of plasticity in phenotypic adaptation to rapid environmental change

RJ Fox, JM Donelson, C Schunter… - … transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How populations and species respond to modified environmental conditions is critical to
their persistence both now and into the future, particularly given the increasing pace of …

Biodiversity, climate change, and adaptation in the Mediterranean

D Aurelle, S Thomas, C Albert, M Bally, A Bondeau… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Potential for, and limits to, adaptation to environmental changes are critical for resilience and
risk mitigation. The Mediterranean basin is a mosaic of biodiversity‐rich ecosystems long …

A framework for understanding gene expression plasticity and its influence on stress tolerance

HE Rivera, HE Aichelman, JE Fifer… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phenotypic plasticity can serve as a step** stone towards adaptation. Recently, studies
have shown that gene expression contributes to emergent stress responses such as thermal …

[HTML][HTML] Human-mediated impacts on biodiversity and the consequences for zoonotic disease spillover

CK Glidden, N Nova, MP Kain, KM Lagerstrom… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Human-mediated changes to natural ecosystems have consequences for both ecosystem
and human health. Historically, efforts to preserve or restore 'biodiversity'can seem to be in …

Thermal plasticity in insects' response to climate change and to multifactorial environments

YK Rodrigues, P Beldade - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Phenotypic plasticity, the property by which living organisms express different phenotypes
depending on environmental conditions, can impact their response to environmental …

Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals

P De Villemereuil, A Charmantier, D Arlt, P Bize… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Temporal variation in natural selection is predicted to strongly impact the evolution and
demography of natural populations, with consequences for the rate of adaptation, evolution …

Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

RM Prather, RM Dalton, B Barr… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The timing of life events (phenology) can be influenced by climate. Studies from around the
world tell us that climate cues and species' responses can vary greatly. If variation in climate …

Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less sensitive to climatic variation

LD Bailey, M van de Pol, F Adriaensen, A Arct… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The phenology of many species shows strong sensitivity to climate change; however, with
few large scale intra-specific studies it is unclear how such sensitivity varies over a species' …