Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

SR Weiskopf, MA Rubenstein, LG Crozier… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity …

Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures

MJ Osland, PW Stevens, MM Lamont… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tropicalization is a term used to describe the transformation of temperate ecosystems by
poleward‐moving tropical organisms in response to warming temperatures. In North …

Climate vulnerability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem

LG Crozier, MM McClure, T Beechie, SJ Bograd… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Major ecological realignments are already occurring in response to climate change. To be
successful, conservation strategies now need to account for geographical patterns in traits …

[HTML][HTML] Defining ecological drought for the twenty-first century

SD Crausbay, AR Ramirez, SL Carter… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century in: Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society Volume 98 Issue 12 (2017) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

Impacts of climate change on mangrove ecosystems: a region by region overview

RD Ward, DA Friess, RH Day… - Ecosystem Health and …, 2016 - spj.science.org
Inter-related and spatially variable climate change factors including sea level rise, increased
storminess, altered precipitation regime and increasing temperature are impacting …

Behavioral flexibility as a mechanism for coping with climate change

EA Beever, LE Hall, J Varner… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Of the primary responses to contemporary climate change–“move, adapt, acclimate, or die”–
that are available to organisms,“acclimate” may be effectively achieved through behavioral …

A vulnerability assessment of fish and invertebrates to climate change on the Northeast US Continental Shelf

JA Hare, WE Morrison, MW Nelson, MM Stachura… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Climate change and decadal variability are impacting marine fish and invertebrate species
worldwide and these impacts will continue for the foreseeable future. Quantitative …

Climatic controls on the global distribution, abundance, and species richness of mangrove forests

MJ Osland, LC Feher, KT Griffith… - Ecological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Mangrove forests are highly productive tidal saline wetland ecosystems found along
sheltered tropical and subtropical coasts. Ecologists have long assumed that climatic drivers …

A comprehensive review of climate adaptation in the United States: more than before, but less than needed

R Bierbaum, JB Smith, A Lee, M Blair, L Carter… - … adaptation strategies for …, 2013 - Springer
We reviewed existing and planned adaptation activities of federal, tribal, state, and local
governments and the private sector in the United States (US) to understand what types of …

Beyond just sea‐level rise: Considering macroclimatic drivers within coastal wetland vulnerability assessments to climate change

MJ Osland, NM Enwright, RH Day… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their position at the land‐sea interface, coastal wetlands are vulnerable to many
aspects of climate change. However, climate change vulnerability assessments for coastal …