Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

JA Harvey, K Tougeron, R Gols, R Heinen… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming is considered to be among the most serious of anthropogenic stresses to
the environment, because it not only has direct effects on biodiversity, but it also exacerbates …

Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict

B Abrahms, NH Carter, TJ Clark-Wolf… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change and human–wildlife conflict are both pressing challenges for biodiversity
conservation and human well-being in the Anthropocene. Climate change is a critical yet …

[HTML][HTML] A global reptile assessment highlights shared conservation needs of tetrapods

N Cox, BE Young, P Bowles, M Fernandez, J Marin… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Comprehensive assessments of species' extinction risks have documented the extinction
crisis 1 and underpinned strategies for reducing those risks 2. Global assessments reveal …

The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change

CH Trisos, C Merow, AL Pigot - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
As anthropogenic climate change continues the risks to biodiversity will increase over time,
with future projections indicating that a potentially catastrophic loss of global biodiversity is …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth

JM Bennett, J Sunday, P Calosi, F Villalobos… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding how species' thermal limits have evolved across the tree of life is central to
predicting species' responses to climate change. Here, using experimentally-derived …

More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends

C Finn, F Grattarola, D Pincheira‐Donoso - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The global‐scale decline of animal biodiversity ('defaunation') represents one of the most
alarming consequences of human impacts on the planet. The quantification of this extinction …

Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms

ML Pinsky, AM Eikeset, DJ McCauley, JL Payne… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding which species and ecosystems will be most severely affected by warming as
climate change advances is important for guiding conservation and management. Both …

Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates

G Murali, T Iwamura, S Meiri, U Roll - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme thermal events are increasing and are
projected to further increase by the end of the century,. Despite the considerable …

Recent responses to climate change reveal the drivers of species extinction and survival

C Román-Palacios, JJ Wiens - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change may be a major threat to biodiversity in the next 100 years. Although there
has been important work on mechanisms of decline in some species, it generally remains …

Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web

BC Lister, A Garcia - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
A number of studies indicate that tropical arthropods should be particularly vulnerable to
climate warming. If these predictions are realized, climate warming may have a more …