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 …

Rapid climatic changes and increasing human influence at high elevations around the world
will have profound impacts on mountain biodiversity. However, forecasts from statistical …

Humans have fragmented, reduced or altered the biodiversity in tropical forests around the
world. Climate and land‐use change act synergistically, increasing drought and fire …

The integration of functional traits into vulnerability assessments is a promising approach to
quantitatively capture differences in species sensitivity and adaptive capacity to climate …

Warming has been particularly strong at high latitudes in recent decades and bioclimatic
models predict northern shifts in optimal conditions for most species. Climate is a strong …

Information on the ecological traits of species might improve predictions of climate-driven
range shifts. However, the usefulness of traits is usually assumed rather than quantified …

Dispersal is essential for species to survive the threats of habitat destruction and climate
change. Combining descriptions of dispersal ability with those of landscape structure, the …

The impact of climate change on forests is expected to vary globally and regionally.
Canada's Acadian Forest Region lies in the transition between the North American boreal …

This chapter summarizes research on seed dispersal vectors (water, wind and animals), and
the factors (including seed size and chemical composition, and plant habit) that determine …

Species ranges are seldom at equilibrium with climate, because several interacting factors
determine distribution, including demographic processes, dispersal, land use, disturbance …