Changes in Ecologically Critical Terrestrial Climate Conditions

By N. Diffenbaugh, Christopher B. Field. Science, 2013

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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Limited scope for plasticity to increase upper thermal limits (2016, background): “Both average temperature and the frequency and intensity of extreme temperature events are projected to increase over the coming decades (Clusella-Trullas, Blackburn & Chown 2011; Diffenbaugh & Field 2013; IPCC 2013), imposing increasingly strong selection on many taxa.”
Towards a mechanistic understanding of the responses of large terrestrial mammals to heat and aridity associated with climate change (2016, background): “In addition to the warming with climate change, areas of Central America, northeastern South America, the Mediterranean, west Africa, southern Africa, and southwestern Australia are expected to experience an increase in the frequency of extremely dry seasons, while many northern hemisphere areas wil”
Patterns and dynamics of European vegetation change over the last 15,000 years (2017, background): “…of human-induced global warming is forecast to rival the rates of change associated with natural transitions from glacial to interglacial periods (Diffenbaugh & Field, 2013) and the ability of plants to respond remains one of the greatest uncertainties about the impact of global warming…”
Impacts of global climate change on the floras of oceanic islands – Projections, implications and current knowledge (2015, background): “However, in comparison to Tertiary and Quaternary climatic shifts and oscillations, which have resulted from geological and geophysical processes, the recent anthropogenic changes are proceeding much more rapidly (Diffenbaugh and Field, 2013), making species’ adaptations in necessary rates difficult”
Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being (2017, unknown): “Observed and projected climatic changes for the 21st century, most notably global warming, ( 3 , 4 ).”
A new scenario framework for Climate Change Research: scenario matrix architecture (2014, unknown): “While analysts are increasingly applying multi-model ensemble climate projections in impact studies (e.g. Araújo and New, 2007; Diffenbaugh and Field, 2013), this is not always feasible.”
Plasticity in thermal tolerance has limited potential to buffer ectotherms from global warming (2015, background): “This is a troubling result given that both mean environmental temperatures and the frequency of thermal extremes are increasing with climate change [1,58].”