Interactions between climate change and land use change on biodiversity: attribution problems, risks, and opportunities

TH Oliver, MD Morecroft - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Global change drivers are known to interact in their effects on biodiversity, but much
research to date ignores this complexity. As a consequence, there are problems in the …

Evidence of current impact of climate change on life: a walk from genes to the biosphere

J Peñuelas, J Sardans, M Estiarte… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We review the evidence of how organisms and populations are currently responding to
climate change through phenotypic plasticity, genotypic evolution, changes in distribution …

Insects and recent climate change

CA Halsch, AM Shapiro, JA Fordyce… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Insects have diversified through more than 450 million y of Earth's changeable climate, yet
rapidly shifting patterns of temperature and precipitation now pose novel challenges as they …

Widespread crown condition decline, food web disruption, and amplified tree mortality with increased climate change-type drought

J Carnicer, M Coll, M Ninyerola… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change is progressively increasing severe drought events in the Northern
Hemisphere, causing regional tree die-off events and contributing to the global reduction of …

The role of climate change in pollinator decline across the Northern Hemisphere is underestimated

D Vasiliev, S Greenwood - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Pollinator biodiversity loss occurs at unprecedented rates globally, with particularly sharp
declines documented in the North Temperate Zone. There is currently no consensus on the …

Impacts of global change on Mediterranean forests and their services

J Peñuelas, J Sardans, I Filella, M Estiarte, J Llusià… - Forests, 2017 - mdpi.com
The increase in aridity, mainly by decreases in precipitation but also by higher temperatures,
is likely the main threat to the diversity and survival of Mediterranean forests. Changes in …

Assessing declines of North American bumble bees (Bombus spp.) using museum specimens

SR Colla, F Gadallah, L Richardson, D Wagner… - Biodiversity and …, 2012 - Springer
Bumble bees are an important group of wild pollinators in North America and considerable
concern has been expressed over declines in their populations. However, before causes for …

Contrasting trait syndromes in angiosperms and conifers are associated with different responses of tree growth to temperature on a large scale

J Carnicer, A Barbeta, D Sperlich, M Coll… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Recent large-scale studies of tree growth in the Iberian Peninsula reported contrasting
positive and negative effects of temperature in Mediterranean angiosperms and conifers …

Novel communities from climate change

M Lurgi, BC López, JM Montoya - … Transactions of the …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate change is generating novel communities composed of new combinations of
species. These result from different degrees of species adaptations to changing biotic and …

Recent range shifts of moths, butterflies, and birds are driven by the breadth of their climatic niche

MH Hällfors, RK Heikkinen, M Kuussaari… - Evolution …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Species are altering their ranges as a response to climate change, but the magnitude and
direction of observed range shifts vary considerably among species. The ability to persist in …