The distributions of a wide range of taxonomic groups are expanding polewards

By R. Hickling, David Roy, Jane K. Hill, R. Fox, Christopher M Thomas. 2006

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

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Statistics for citizen science: extracting signals of change from noisy ecological data (2014, methodology): “Opportunistic data have delivered substantive insights into the ecological impacts of climate change (Hickling et al. 2006), invasive species (Roy et al. 2012) and habitat loss (Warren et al. 2001).”
Climate change and cyclic predator–prey population dynamics in the high Arctic (2009, background): “Another factor not included in our model is possible new prey and predator species that may colonize the Arctic on the long-term (Hickling et al., 2006).”
Plant Phenology And Distribution In Relation To Recent Climate Change (2008, background): “More poleward shifts have been documented in animals than in plants (Hickling et al. 2006, Parmesan 2006).”
Too hot to handle? Phenological and life‐history responses to simulated climate change of the southern green stink bug Nezara viridula (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) (2010, background): “The data accumulated so far suggest that effect of climate change is likely to be complex and differ among species and regions (Walther et al., 2002; Reemer et al., 2003; Hickling et al., 2006; Deutsch et al., 2008).”
How are insects responding to global warming (2007, result): “Hickling et al. (2006) found similar qualitative results when comparing less studied groups with those for which good quality data were available in Britain.”
Sentinel systems on the razor's edge: effects of warming on Arctic geothermal stream ecosystems (2010, background): “range shifts in species populations) (Sala et al., 2000; Hickling et al., 2006; Parmesan, 2006; IPCC, 2007; but see McKee et al., 2002a, b and Durance & Ormerod, 2007, 2009).”
Harmonia axyridis in Great Britain: analysis of the spread and distribution of a non-native coccinellid (2008, methodology): “In Great Britain, the northerly range expansion of some insect groups was calculated by Hickling et al. (2006), giving figures of up to 4.2 km year-1 (over a 25 year period) for the most dispersive taxa (dragonflies); but these range expansions were for native species responding to climate change,…”
The Biological Records Centre: a pioneer of citizen science (2015, background): “This means the wide impacts of biodiversity change can be quantified (Hickling et al., 2006; Burns et al., 2013; Thomas et al., 2015) and mechanisms of change can be inferred (Warren et al., 2001).”
Historical changes in the phenology of British Odonata are related to climate (2007, background): “Large-scale distributional changes have been recorded numerous times (Parmesan et al., 1999; Hickling et al., 2006; Mieszkowska et al., 2006).”
Uses and misuses of bioclimatic envelope modeling. (2012, background): “This paper discusses these two areas of contention, and proposes that criticisms have often been misplaced, resulting from confusion between what information the models in truth deliver vs. what users think or wish that they would express.”
Geographical range margins of many taxonomic groups continue to shift polewards (2015, positive): “Indeed, studies have reported large inter-and intraspeciﬁc variation in the responses of taxonomic groups to climate change (Thomas et al. , 2004; Hickling et al. , 2006; Rapacciu-olo et al. , 2014).”
Climate change and freshwater biodiversity: detected patterns, future trends and adaptations in northern regions (2009, background): “An exception in this regard is Britain, where many freshwater groups have been surveyed for a long time, enabling at least suggestions about the likely responses of species to projected climate change (Hickling et al., 2006).”
Interactions between climate and habitat loss effects on biodiversity: a systematic review and meta‐analysis (2012, background): “The evidence for these changes, however, comes mostly from the documented shifts in the distributions of a few well-studied taxonomic groups (e.g. birds, butterflies and vascular plants) (e.g. Hickling et al., 2005, 2006; Sekercioglu et al., 2008).”