Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Environmental manipulation studies are integral to determining biological consequences of
climate warming. Open Top Chambers (OTC s) have been widely used to assess summer …

The contributions of botanic gardens to conservation biology and global-change research
need to be understood within the context of the traditional strengths of such gardens in …

Quality inferiority in cool-season turfgrass due to drought, heat, and a combination of both
stresses is predicted to be more prevalent in the future. Understanding the various response …

The international, interdisciplinary biodiversity research project BIOTA AFRICA initiated a
standardized biodiversity monitoring network along climatic gradients across the African …

Plants under natural conditions experience unfavorable growth conditions. These can cause
a reduction of their photosynthetic rate or even damage the photosynthetic apparatus, which …

The responses of desert plants to climate warming have been poorly assessed, perhaps due
to the overall expectation that desert vegetation will expand as a consequence of this …

We assessed inter-seasonal dynamics of seed banks, dormancy and seed germination in
three endemic Chihuahuan Desert succulent species, under simulated soil warming …

Passive chambers are used to examine the impacts of summer warming in Antarctica but, so
far, impacts occurring outside the growing season, or related to extreme temperatures, have …

Namaqualand is especially vulnerable to future climate change impacts. Using a high-
resolution (0.5 x0. 5) gridded data set (CRU TS 3.1) and individual weather station data, we …