Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics

By Robert K. Colwell, Gunnar Brehm, C. Cardelús, A. Gilman, J. Longino. Science, 2008

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

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Upslope migration of Andean trees (2011, positive): “, 2004; Feeley & Silman, 2010a) and to local declines in biodiversity due to ‘biotic attrition’ (Colwell et al., 2008; Feeley & Silman, 2010b), (1)Department of Biological Sciences, Florida”
Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web (2018, background): “In montane habitats upward migrations into cooler refugia can spell the difference between survival and extinction as temperatures rise at lower elevations (119).”
Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world. (2009, background): “Moreover, much of the tropics lack a source pool of species adapted to higher temperatures that can replace those that will be driven up altitudinal gradients by warming, raising the threat of biotic attrition in species diversity within lowland forests (Colwell et al. 2008).”
Insect Declines in the Anthropocene. (2020, background): “Many researchers looking to explain insect declines or predict future effects of global warming have focused on temperature increases as a threat to insect biodiversity (27, 52, 109, 138, 155, 196).”
The world and its shades of green: a meta‐analysis on trophic cascades across temperature and precipitation gradients (2013, background): “Thus, unprecedented temperatures in rain forests and the narrow temperature tolerance ranges of tropical organisms increases the risk of biotic attrition in the lowland rain forests (Deutsch et al., 2006; Colwell et al., 2008).”
Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation (2020, background): “Climate change will continue to reduce geographic niche space, particularly in the tropics (Colwell et al., 2008; Janzen & Hallwachs, 2019), so protecting habitats over gradients of elevation or vegetation structure may be crucial to increase the resilience of species and ecosystem functions (see…”
Recent evidence for the climate change threat to Lepidoptera and other insects (2011, background): “In the Tropics, where latitudinal gradients in climate are negligible, elevational range shifts may play a major role in allowing species to track the availability of suitable climatic conditions, and work based to a large extent on insects has been important in illustrating this point (Colwell et a”
Species Turnover along Abiotic and Biotic Gradients: Patterns in Space Equal Patterns in Time? (2010, background): “June 2010 / Vol. 60 No. 6 www.biosciencemag.org climatic heterogeneity operating at large scales in space and time (for space, see Janzen 1967, Colwell et al. 2008).”
The data void in modeling current and future distributions of tropical species (2011, background): “Even if species are capable of migrating, these range shifts often result in reduced habitat areas, increased risks of extinction, and loss of local biodiversity (Thomas et al., 2004; Malcolm et al., 2006; Colwell et al., 2008; Feeley & Silman, 2009a).”
Distributional migrations, expansions, and contractions of tropical plant species as revealed in dated herbarium records (2012, background): “Changes in species’ distributions may in turn drive changes in local biodiversity (Colwell et al., 2008; Feeley & Silman, 2010a), the creation of noanalog species communities (Williams & Jackson, 2007; Stralberg et al., 2009), and/or altered ecosystem services (Bunker et al., 2005).”
Reasons for an outstanding plant diversity in the tropical Andes of southern Ecuador. (2009, background): “There is concern that especially small-ranged species adapted to cool environments become eliminated by climate warming (Colwell et al. 2008).”