Local climatic changes affect biodiversity responses to land use: A review

By Jessica J. Williams, Tim Newbold. Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity, 2019

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Climate and land‐use change, the greatest pressures on biodiversity, can directly influence each other. One key case is the impact land‐use change has on local climatic conditions: human‐altered areas are often warmer and drier than natural habitats. This can have multiple impacts on biodiversity and is a rapidly developing field of research. Here, we summarize the current state of understanding on the impact that local climatic changes have on biodiversity responses to land‐use change, in particular looking at whether human‐altered land uses favour species with certain climatic niches.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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