Climate change at the landscape scale: predicting fine‐grained spatial heterogeneity in warming and potential refugia for vegetation

By Michael B. Ashcroft, Laurie A. Chisholm, K. French. 2009

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Microclimatic buffering and resource‐based habitat in a glacial relict butterfly: significance for conservation under climate change (2009, background): “Regional climate is filtered by local vegetation into a particular configuration of microclimates representing spatial and temporal thermal heterogeneity (WallisDeVries & Van Swaay, 2006; Aschcroft et al., 2009).”
Forest structure and species traits mediate projected recruitment declines in western US tree species (2015, background): “This influence is mediated in part by topography, vegetation structure and microclimate (Ashcroft et al., 2009; Dobrowski, 2011).”
Impacts of global climate change on the floras of oceanic islands – Projections, implications and current knowledge (2015, background): “…particular ecosystem processes and structures, availability or co-migration potentials of interacting partner species, competition; e.g. Wisz et al., 2013), migration path suitability (e.g. Fortini et al., 2013), and availability of micro-refugia (e.g. Ashcroft et al., 2009; Fortini et al., 2013).”
Fine‐resolution (25 m) topoclimatic grids of near‐surface (5 cm) extreme temperatures and humidities across various habitats in a large (200 × 300 km) and diverse region (2011, background): “, 2011), and the effect of exposure varies according to wind speed and direction (Lundquist and Cayan, 2007; Ashcroft et al., 2009).”
A climatic basis for microrefugia: the influence of terrain on climate (2011, background): “The influence of slope and aspect on the radiation environment is well understood (Geiger, 1965; Chung & Yun, 2004) whereas much less is known about the interaction between slope, aspect, and prevalent wind direction in landscape-scale modeling efforts [although see Ashcroft et al. (2009)].”
Identifying refugia from climate change (2010, background): “This is because topography creates complex mosaics of exposure to wind and radiation, and sheltered locations may be buffered from regional climate change (Hampe & Petit, 2005; Williams et al., 2008; Ashcroft et al., 2009).”