Complex responses of global insect pests to climate warming

P Lehmann, T Ammunét, M Barton… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although it is well known that insects are sensitive to temperature, how they will be affected
by ongoing global warming remains uncertain because these responses are multifaceted …

There is plenty of room at the bottom: microclimates drive insect vulnerability to climate change

S Pincebourde, HA Woods - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•We provide a simple method to determine the microscale pertinent to small
insects.•Fine-scale microclimates can differ from local microclimates that are widely …

Remotely sensed high-resolution global cloud dynamics for predicting ecosystem and biodiversity distributions

AM Wilson, W Jetz - PLoS biology, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Cloud cover can influence numerous important ecological processes, including
reproduction, growth, survival, and behavior, yet our assessment of its importance at the …

Spatial models reveal the microclimatic buffering capacity of old-growth forests

SJK Frey, AS Hadley, SL Johnson, M Schulze… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Climate change is predicted to cause widespread declines in biodiversity, but these
predictions are derived from coarse-resolution climate models applied at global scales …

Effects of topography on tropical forest structure depend on climate context

R Muscarella, S Kolyaie, DC Morton… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Topography affects abiotic conditions which can influence the structure, function and
dynamics of ecological communities. An increasing number of studies have demonstrated …

Climate change and the neglected tropical diseases

M Booth - Advances in parasitology, 2018 - Elsevier
Climate change is expected to impact across every domain of society, including health. The
majority of the world's population is susceptible to pathological, infectious disease whose life …

Cross-realm assessment of climate change impacts on species' abundance trends

DE Bowler, C Hof, P Haase, I Kröncke… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Climate change, land-use change, pollution and exploitation are among the main drivers of
species' population trends; however, their relative importance is much debated. We used a …

Land cover affects microclimate and temperature suitability for arbovirus transmission in an urban landscape

MC Wimberly, JK Davis, MV Evans… - PLoS neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The emergence of mosquito-transmitted viruses poses a global threat to human health.
Combining mechanistic epidemiological models based on temperature-trait relationships …

Macrophysiology–progress and prospects

SL Chown, KJ Gaston - Functional Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Macrophysiology is the investigation of variation in physiological traits over large geographic
and temporal scales and the ecological implications of this variation. It has now been …

Microclimate buffering and thermal tolerance across elevations in a tropical butterfly

G Montejo-Kovacevich, SH Martin… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Microclimatic variability in tropical forests plays a key role in shaping species distributions
and their ability to cope with environmental change, especially for ectotherms. Nonetheless …