The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people

By Brett R. Scheffers, L. De Meester, T. Bridge, A. Hoffmann, J. Pandolfi, Richard T. Corlett, S. Butchart, P. Pearce-Kelly, Kit M. Kovacs, D. Dudgeon and 7 more. Science, 2016

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Sociology and Political Science

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Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming (2020, methodology): “In line with our previously applied statistical framework, we tested whether our findings presented in the main text change when we consider 45 (1) thermophilisation rates calculated using the shifts in the 50 and 5 percentiles of the floristic temperature distributions rather than the 95 percentile”
Conservation implications of ecological responses to extreme weather and climate events (2018, background): “This focus has improved our overall understanding of how climate change is shaping the environment (Scheffers et al., 2016) but has left many conservation plans unprepared for changes in the frequency and distribution of extreme weather and climate events (Chapman et al., 2014; Jones et al., 2016).”
Impacts of recent climate change on terrestrial flora and fauna: Some emerging Australian examples (2018, background): “Anthropogenic climate change has now impacted 82% of 94 core ecological processes recognized by biologists, from genetic diversity to ecosystem function (Scheffers et al. 2016).”
The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss (2022, neutral): “Climate change has rightly attracted attention as a recent and accelerating direct driver ( 5 , 10 , 11 ), but other drivers—direct exploitation of natural resources, land/sea use change, pollution, and invasive alien species—also still cause widespread biodiversity loss ( 12 – 14 ).”
Global scenarios for biodiversity need to better integrate climate and land use change (2017, background): “…GLOLAND, Grant/Award Number: 311819 and FP7-IDEAS-ERC Editor: Alexandra Syphard It is now widely recognized that climate and land use changes are among the most important threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services (Maxwell, Fuller, Brooks, & Watson, 2016; Scheffers et al., 2016).”
How much does climate change threaten European forest tree species distributions? (2018, background): “Climate change significantly influences geographical distributions of plant species worldwide (Scheffers et al., 2016).”
Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges (2020, background): “With or without active management, many ecosystems have transitioned or are in the process of transitioning to alternative states under climate change [92].”
Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity (2018, background): “…processes that underpin freshwater ecosystem functioning from genes to populations, 23 have been affected by climate change, including reductions in body size, shifts in distribution, changes in phenology, algal blooms and desynchronisation of interspeciﬁc interactions (Scheffers et al. , 2016).”