The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people

BR Scheffers, L De Meester, TCL Bridge, AA Hoffmann… - Science, 2016‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND Climate change impacts have now been documented across every
ecosystem on Earth, despite an average warming of only~ 1° C so far. Here, we describe the …

Scientists' warning of threats to mountains

DS Schmeller, D Urbach, K Bates, J Catalan… - Science of the Total …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Mountains are an essential component of the global life-support system. They are
characterized by a rugged, heterogenous landscape with rapidly changing environmental …

Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change

BT Trew, IMD Maclean - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Motivation More than half of Earth's species are contained in a mere 1.4% of its land area,
but the climates of many of these biodiversity hotspots are projected to disappear as a …

Widespread but heterogeneous responses of Andean forests to climate change

B Fadrique, S Báez, Á Duque, A Malizia, C Blundo… - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
Global warming is forcing many species to shift their distributions upward, causing
consequent changes in the compositions of species that occur at specific locations. This …

Multiple dimensions of climate change and their implications for biodiversity

RA Garcia, M Cabeza, C Rahbek, MB Araújo - Science, 2014‏ - science.org
Background Changes in Earth's climate over time can be measured in many ways. The
different metrics available represent alternative dimensions of climate change, each with …

Thermal tolerance and the global redistribution of animals

JM Sunday, AE Bates, NK Dulvy - Nature Climate Change, 2012‏ - nature.com
The redistribution of life on Earth has emerged as one of the most significant biological
responses to anthropogenic climate warming,,. Despite being one of the most long-standing …

Global mountain topography and the fate of montane species under climate change

PR Elsen, MW Tingley - Nature Climate Change, 2015‏ - nature.com
Increasing evidence indicates that species throughout the world are responding to climate
change by shifting their geographic distributions,,. Although shifts can be directionally …

Will plant movements keep up with climate change?

RT Corlett, DA Westcott - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2013‏ - cell.com
In the face of anthropogenic climate change, species must acclimate, adapt, move, or die.
Although some species are moving already, their ability to keep up with the faster changes …

Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: roles of behaviour, physiology and adaptation

RB Huey, MR Kearney… - … of the Royal …, 2012‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
A recently developed integrative framework proposes that the vulnerability of a species to
environmental change depends on the species' exposure and sensitivity to environmental …

Terrestrial and inland water systems

J Settele, R Scholes, RA Betts, S Bunn… - 2014‏ - research-repository.griffith.edu.au
The topics assessed in this chapter were last assessed by the IPCC in 2007, principally in
WGII AR4 Chapters 3 (Kundzewicz et al., 2007) and 4 (Fischlin et al., 2007), but also in WGII …