A climatic basis for microrefugia: the influence of terrain on climate

By Solomon Dobrowski. 2011

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

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Topography as a driver of local terrestrial vascular plant diversity patterns (2013, background): “On the other hand, in a recent review of the infl uence of terrain on local climates, Dobrowski (2011) presented evidence that topography has a less marked infl uence on small-scale temperatures than on soil moisture: slope and aspect appeared to have only little eff ect on local minimum…”
Urban heat island impacts on plant phenology: intra-urban variability and response to land cover (2016, background): “…response to theUHI in parksmay be particularly beneficial for native and migratory species which rely on vegetation phenological events for survival (e.g. budburst), as urban parks are often viewed as refugia for species threatened by the urbanization process (Dobrowski 2011, Stagoll et al 2012).”
Multiple Dimensions of Climate Change and Their Implications for Biodiversity (2014, background): “Mountain areas offer more opportunities for species to track slow-moving climates over the complex mosaic of microclimates provided by the local topography (94).”
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).”
Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change (2021, background): “The physical variation in terrain generates local warm and cold source and sink areas (Burrows et al., 2014), driven, for example, by the effects of terrain on solar radiation (Ashcroft, 2010; Dobrowski, 2011).”
Old‐growth forests buffer climate‐sensitive bird populations from warming (2018, background): “Such locations could be thermally buffered due to effects of microtopography (Dobrowski, 2011) rather than the effects of old growth per se.”
Forest disturbance accelerates thermophilization of understory plant communities (2015, background): “…alter the realized climatic niche that plants experience, potentially buffering the effects of changing regional climate and creating microclimate refugia that act to slow community thermophilization (Dobrowski 2010; Lenoir, Graae & Aarrestad 2013; Rapacciuolo et al. 2014; Spasojevic et al. 2014).”
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): “…when distance to coast, elevation and canopy cover varied widely), this reinforces the suggestion that predicting the frequency and magnitude of cold air pooling events is crucial to understanding the potential impacts of climate change and identifying potential microrefugia (Dobrowski, 2011).”
Linking small-scale topography with microclimate, plant species diversity and intra-specific trait variation in an alpine landscape (2015, background): “Topographically complex 61 terrain should therefore contain a wide range of plant niches, and might be likely locations of 62 climatic micro-refugia (Ashcroft 2010; Dobrowski 2011).”
Is southwestern China experiencing more frequent precipitation extremes? (2014, background): “It is well known that physiographic factors such as elevation, slope, aspect, and topographic convergence could influence meteorological elements (Dobrowski 2011, Fu 1983, Weng and Luo 1990, Bristow and Campbell 1984).”
The portfolio concept in ecology and evolution (2015, background): “Species distribution models predict smaller losses of terrestrial habitat due to climate change when accounting for the influence of terrain on local expression of climate in habitat conditions (Dobrowski 2011; Sears et al. 2011).”