How many species will Earth lose to climate change?

JJ Wiens, J Zelinka - Global Change Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change may be an important threat to global biodiversity, potentially leading to the
extinction of numerous species. But how many? There have been various attempts to …

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 …

Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land

J Lenoir, R Bertrand, L Comte, L Bourgeaud… - Nature ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
There is mounting evidence of species redistribution as climate warms. Yet, our knowledge
of the coupling between species range shifts and isotherm shifts remains limited. Here, we …

Climate change causes upslope shifts and mountaintop extirpations in a tropical bird community

BG Freeman, MN Scholer, V Ruiz-Gutierrez… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
Montane species worldwide are shifting upslope in response to recent temperature
increases. These upslope shifts are predicted to lead to mountaintop extinctions of species …

Climate-related local extinctions are already widespread among plant and animal species

JJ Wiens - PLoS biology, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Current climate change may be a major threat to global biodiversity, but the extent of species
loss will depend on the details of how species respond to changing climates. For example, if …

Expanding, shifting and shrinking: The impact of global warming on species' elevational distributions

BG Freeman, JA Lee‐Yaw, JM Sunday… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species are responding to climate warming by shifting their distributions toward
historically cooler regions, but the degree to which expansions at cool range limits are …

Climate‐related range shifts–a global multidimensional synthesis and new research directions

J Lenoir, JC Svenning - Ecography, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Poleward and upward shifts are the most frequent types of range shifts that have been
reported in response to contemporary climate change. However, the number of reports …

Species' traits as predictors of range shifts under contemporary climate change: A review and meta‐analysis

SA MacLean, SR Beissinger - Global Change Biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A growing body of literature seeks to explain variation in range shifts using species'
ecological and life‐history traits, with expectations that shifts should be greater in species …

Improvements in reports of species redistribution under climate change are required

S Taheri, B Naimi, C Rahbek, MB Araújo - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
Studies have documented climate change–induced shifts in species distributions but
uncertainties associated with data and methods are typically unexplored. We reviewed 240 …

Land-use change interacts with climate to determine elevational species redistribution

F Guo, J Lenoir, TC Bonebrake - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Climate change is driving global species redistribution with profound social and economic
impacts. However, species movement is largely constrained by habitat availability and …