The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5 C

O Hoegh-Guldberg, D Jacob, M Taylor… - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
was established in 1992 to pursue the “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations at a …

Measuring the success of climate change adaptation and mitigation in terrestrial ecosystems

MD Morecroft, S Duffield, M Harley, JW Pearce-Higgins… - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Responding effectively to climate change requires urgent action to halt net
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to adapt to changes that cannot be prevented. The …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for climate change adaptation indicators for the natural environment

JW Pearce-Higgins, LH Antão, RE Bates… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Impacts of climate change on natural and human systems will become increasingly severe
as the magnitude of climate change increases. Climate change adaptation interventions to …

Trends and indicators for quantifying moth abundance and occupancy in Scotland

EB Dennis, TM Brereton, BJT Morgan, R Fox… - Journal of Insect …, 2019 - Springer
Moths form an important part of Scotland's biodiversity and an up-to-date assessment of their
status is needed given their value as a diverse and species-rich taxon, with various …

Environmental correlates of breeding abundance and population change of Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata in Britain

SE Franks, DJT Douglas, S Gillings… - Bird Study, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Capsule: Across Britain, breeding Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata are less
numerous and have shown greater population declines in areas with more arable farming …

Using climatic suitability thresholds to identify past, present and future population viability

V Almpanidou, G Schofield, AS Kallimanis… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Often climatic niche models predict that any change in climatic conditions will impact species
abundance or distribution. However, the accuracy of models that just incorporate climatic …

Climate warming has divergent physiological impacts on sympatric lizards

Z Ding, X Wang, T Zou, X Hao, Q Zhang, B Sun… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate warming is expected to affect the vulnerability of sympatric species differentially due
to their divergent traits, but the underlying physiological mechanisms of those impacts are …

[PDF][PDF] National environment and assets

P Berry, I Brown - The third UK climate change risk assessment …, 2021 - pure.sruc.ac.uk
Climate change continues to affect the natural environment across the UK and so this
chapter has the same general scope as of Chapter 3 in CCRA2, and correspondingly …

Novel insights to be gained from applying metacommunity theory to long-term, spatially replicated biodiversity data

S Record, NM Voelker, PL Zarnetske… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Global loss of biodiversity and its associated ecosystem services is occurring at an alarming
rate and is predicted to accelerate in the future. Metacommunity theory provides a framework …

[HTML][HTML] Using data from schools to model variation in soil invertebrates across the UK: The importance of weather, climate, season and habitat

B Martay, JW Pearce-Higgins - Pedobiologia, 2018 - Elsevier
Soil invertebrates play important roles in nutrient cycling, the development of soil structure,
food webs and even climate regulation. It is likely that climate change will have far-reaching …