Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean are facing complex environmental change.
Their native biota has adapted to the region's extreme conditions over many millions of …

The polar regions are experiencing rapid climate change with implications for terrestrial
ecosystems. Here, despite limited knowledge, we make some early predictions on soil …

Growth of terrestrial plant species and functional types (PFTs) in response to climate
warming determines future dynamics of terrestrial vegetation.• Here, a meta‐analysis was …

Climate warming and extreme hydrological events are threatening the sustainability of
wetlands across the globe. However, whether climate warming will amplify or diminish the …

Extreme events such as heat waves are emerging as a key facet of climate change, but to
date, experiments on the impacts on plants are scarce. Experimental simulation of heat …

Biodiversity is threatened by climate change and other human activities [1], but to assess
impacts, we also need to identify the current distribution of species on Earth. Predicting …

Ice-free terrestrial environments of the western Antarctic Peninsula are expanding and
subject to colonization by new microorganisms and plants, which control biogeochemical …

Antarctic flowering plants have become enigmatic because of their unique capability to
colonize Antarctica. It has been shown that there is not a single trait that makes Colobanthus …

Long‐term observations of ecological communities are necessary for generating and testing
predictions of ecosystem responses to climate change. We investigated temporal trends and …

High-altitude and alpine areas are predicted to experience rapid and substantial increases
in future temperature, which may have serious impacts on soil carbon, nutrient and soil …