The influence of paleoclimate on present-day patterns in biodiversity and ecosystems
By Jens‐Christian Svenning, W. Eiserhardt, S. Normand, Alejandro Ordonez, Brody Sandel. 2015
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Earth's climate has experienced strong changes on timescales ranging from decades to millions of years. As biodiversity has evolved under these circumstances, dependence on these climate dynamics is expected. In this review, we assess the current state of knowledge on paleoclimatic legacies in biodiversity and ecosystem patterns. Paleoclimate has had strong impacts on past biodiversity dynamics, driving range shifts and extinctions as well as diversification. We outline theory for how these dynamics may have left legacies in contemporary patterns and review the empirical evidence. We report ample evidence that Quaternary glacial–interglacial climate change affects current patterns of species distributions and diversity across a broad range of organisms and regions. We also report emerging evidence for paleoclimate effects on current patterns in phylogenetic and functional diversity and ecosystem functioning and for legacies of deeper-time paleoclimate conditions. Finally, we discuss implications for Anthr...
Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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- Evolutionary history of the flora of Mexico: Dry forests cradles and museums of endemism (2018, background): “The historical climate stability hypothesis proposes that taxa have differing abilities to adapt to climate changes and that the areas with a stable climate allow for the persistence of species for long periods of time, decreasing extinction events (Svenning et al., 2015).”
- Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change (2021, background): “…stability across some of these temporal scales [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com] Harrison & Noss, 2017; Jansson, 2003; Sandel et al., 2017; Svenning et al., 2015), in addition to higher levels of endemism (Carnaval et al., 2009; Feng et al., 2020; Särkinen et al., 2012).”