Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change

JM Alexander, L Chalmandrier, J Lenoir… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid climatic changes and increasing human influence at high elevations around the world
will have profound impacts on mountain biodiversity. However, forecasts from statistical …

Global change and terrestrial plant community dynamics

J Franklin, JM Serra-Diaz… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Anthropogenic drivers of global change include rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gasses and resulting changes in the climate, as well as …

Novel competitors shape species' responses to climate change

JM Alexander, JM Diez, JM Levine - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Understanding how species respond to climate change is critical for forecasting the future
dynamics and distribution of pests, diseases and biological diversity,,. Although ecologists …

Biotic interactions in species distribution modelling: 10 questions to guide interpretation and avoid false conclusions

CF Dormann, M Bobrowski, DM Dehling… - Global ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Recent studies increasingly use statistical methods to infer biotic interactions from co‐
occurrence information at a large spatial scale. However, disentangling biotic interactions …

Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes

SZ Dobrowski, CE Littlefield, DS Lyons… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Expanding the global protected area network is critical for addressing biodiversity declines
and the climate crisis. However, how climate change will affect ecosystem representation …

Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models and phylogeography

DG Gavin, MC Fitzpatrick, PF Gugger… - New …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Climate refugia, locations where taxa survive periods of regionally adverse climate, are
thought to be critical for maintaining biodiversity through the glacial–interglacial climate …

Understanding interactions between plasticity, adaptation and range shifts in response to marine environmental change

JM Donelson, JM Sunday… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate change is leading to shifts in species geographical distributions, but populations are
also probably adapting to environmental change at different rates across their range. Owing …

Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

CS Delavaux, TW Crowther, CM Zohner, NM Robmann… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Determining the drivers of non-native plant invasions is critical for managing native
ecosystems and limiting the spread of invasive species,. Tree invasions in particular have …

Eco‐evolution on the edge during climate change

CP Nadeau, MC Urban - Ecography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We urgently need to predict species responses to climate change to minimize future
biodiversity loss and ensure we do not waste limited resources on ineffective conservation …

The influence of paleoclimate on present-day patterns in biodiversity and ecosystems

JC Svenning, WL Eiserhardt, S Normand… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Earth's climate has experienced strong changes on timescales ranging from decades to
millions of years. As biodiversity has evolved under these circumstances, dependence on …