Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases

A Pfenning-Butterworth, LB Buckley… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024 - thelancet.com
The concurrent pressures of rising global temperatures, rates and incidence of species
decline, and emergence of infectious diseases represent an unprecedented planetary crisis …

Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

GT Pecl, MB Araújo, JD Bell, J Blanchard… - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND The success of human societies depends intimately on the living
components of natural and managed systems. Although the geographical range limits of …

At-risk marine biodiversity faces extensive, expanding, and intensifying human impacts

CC O'Hara, M Frazier, BS Halpern - Science, 2021 - science.org
Human activities and climate change threaten marine biodiversity worldwide, though
sensitivity to these stressors varies considerably by species and taxonomic group. Map** …

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 …

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 …

Exposure to climate change drives stability or collapse of desert mammal and bird communities

EA Riddell, KJ Iknayan, L Hargrove, S Tremor… - Science, 2021 - science.org
High exposure to warming from climate change is expected to threaten biodiversity by
pushing many species toward extinction. Such exposure is often assessed for all taxa at a …

Divergence of species responses to climate change

S Fei, JM Desprez, KM Potter, I Jo, JA Knott… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Climate change can have profound impacts on biodiversity and the sustainability of many
ecosystems. Various studies have investigated the impacts of climate change, but large …

ΔTrait SDMs: species distribution models that account for local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity

M Benito Garzón, TM Robson, A Hampe - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Improving our understanding of species ranges under rapid climate change requires
application of our knowledge of the tolerance and adaptive capacity of populations to …

Opportunity costs and the response of birds and mammals to climate warming

SJ Cunningham, JL Gardner… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As global temperatures reach record highs, threats posed by climate change to biodiversity
become ever more severe. For endotherms, maintaining body temperature within safe …

A vulnerability assessment of fish and invertebrates to climate change on the Northeast US Continental Shelf

JA Hare, WE Morrison, MW Nelson, MM Stachura… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Climate change and decadal variability are impacting marine fish and invertebrate species
worldwide and these impacts will continue for the foreseeable future. Quantitative …