Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda

P De Frenne, J Lenoir, M Luoto… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Forest microclimates contrast strongly with the climate outside forests. To fully understand
and better predict how forests' biodiversity and functions relate to climate and climate …

Agriculture and climate change are reshaping insect biodiversity worldwide

CL Outhwaite, P McCann, T Newbold - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Several previous studies have investigated changes in insect biodiversity, with some
highlighting declines and others showing turnover in species composition without net …

Vertical stratification patterns of tropical forest vertebrates: A meta‐analysis

EW Basham, JA Baecher, DH Klinges… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests harbour the highest levels of terrestrial biodiversity and represent some of
the most complex ecosystems on Earth, with a significant portion of this diversity above …

Anthropogenic climate and land-use change drive short-and long-term biodiversity shifts across taxa

T Montràs-Janer, AJ Suggitt, R Fox, M Jönsson… - Nature ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Climate change and habitat loss present serious threats to nature. Yet, due to a lack of
historical land-use data, the potential for land-use change and baseline land-use conditions …

Vertebrate population trends are influenced by interactions between land use, climatic position, habitat loss and climate change

JJ Williams, R Freeman, F Spooner… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid human‐driven environmental changes are impacting animal populations around the
world. Currently, land‐use and climate change are two of the biggest pressures facing …

Microclimate variation and recovery time in managed and old-growth temperate forests

F Máliš, K Ujházy, L Hederová, M Ujházyová… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microclimate is a key driver of forest dynamics and shapes the response of forest organisms
to global warming. The spatial and temporal variability of microclimate is strongly affected by …

Tropical forests are thermally buffered despite intensive selective logging

RA Senior, JK Hill, S Benedick… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical rainforests are subject to extensive degradation by commercial selective logging.
Despite pervasive changes to forest structure, selectively logged forests represent vital …

Hydrothermal physiology and climate vulnerability in amphibians

DA Greenberg, WJ Palen - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Concerns over the consequences of global climate change for biodiversity have spurred a
renewed interest in organismal thermal physiology. However, temperature is only one of …

A pantropical analysis of the impacts of forest degradation and conversion on local temperature

RA Senior, JK Hill, P González del Pliego… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Temperature is a core component of a species' fundamental niche. At the fine scale over
which most organisms experience climate (mm to ha), temperature depends upon the …

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 …