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1. Bioclimatic changes in ecoregions of southern South America: Trends and projections based on Holdridge life zones

Author:
Maria R. Derguy; Sebastian Martinuzzi; Marcelo Arturi
Source:
Austral ecology 2022 v.47 no.3 pp. 580-589
ISSN:
1442-9985
Subject:
climate; climate change; ecoregions; land classification; meteorological data; Andes region; Argentina
Abstract:
... Modelling the potential impacts of future climate on ecosystems provides important information for environmental planning and management. The Holdridge life zones system is a land classification based on simple bioclimatic variables that can be used for evaluating the potential effect of future climates on ecosystems. However, information on future bioclimatic changes in ecoregions of southern Sou ...
DOI:
10.1111/aec.13142

2. Inundation of depressional wetlands declines under a changing climate

Author:
David W. Londe; Daniel Dvorett; Craig A. Davis; Scott R. Loss; Ellen P. Robertson
Source:
Climatic change 2022 v.172 no.3-4 pp. 27
ISSN:
0165-0009
Subject:
Pleistocene epoch; biodiversity; climate; climate change; ecoregions; ecosystems; land use; runoff; sand; spring; storms; summer; temperature; wetlands; wildlife; winter; Oklahoma
Abstract:
... Wetlands provide many important ecosystem functions and services worldwide and are hotspots of biological diversity. However, depressional wetlands are particularly vulnerable to effects of climate change due to the significant role that precipitation and surface runoff play in shaping their hydrology. In the Southern Great Plains of North America, climate projections predict more extreme storm ev ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10584-022-03386-z

3. Predicted changes in the functional structure of earthworm assemblages in France driven by climate change

Author:
Yoan Fourcade; Mathias Vercauteren
Source:
Diversity & distributions 2022 v.28 no.5 pp. 1050-1066
ISSN:
1366-9516
Subject:
climate change; decline; earthworms; ecoregions; ecosystems; functional diversity; microclimate; models; refuge habitats; soil; species richness; France
Abstract:
... AIM: Species shift their ranges as a consequence of climate change, hence modifying the structure of local assemblages. This may have important consequences for ecosystem functioning in the case of ecosystem engineers such as earthworms, especially when community restructuring leads to an alteration of their functional diversity. Here, we aimed to model the potential modification of the functional ...
DOI:
10.1111/ddi.13505

4. Assessing the status of existing and tentative marine World Heritage areas reveals opportunities to better achieve World Heritage Convention goals

Author:
Caitlin D. Kuempel; B. Alexander Simmons; Madeline Davey
Source:
Journal of environmental management 2022 v.304 pp. 114276
ISSN:
0301-4797
Subject:
climate change; conservation status; ecoregions; environmental management; humans; wilderness
Abstract:
... The 1972 World Heritage Convention (WHC) and 1994 Global Strategy aim to preserve the outstanding universal value of internationally important cultural and natural sites within a “representative, balanced and credible” network of highly-protected areas. Increasing human pressures and shortfalls in representation have been documented across the World Heritage network, particularly in terrestrial an ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114276

5. Climate change may plunder the facultative top predator Yellow-throated Martin from the Hindu-Kush Himalayan Region

Author:
Ritam Dutta; Tanoy Mukherjee; Amira Sharief; Hemant Singh; Vineet Kumar; Bheem Dutt Joshi; Dhriti Banerjee; Mukesh Thakur; Lalit Kumar Sharma
Source:
Ecological informatics 2022 v.69 pp. 101622
ISSN:
1574-9541
Subject:
Martes flavigula; climate change; ecoregions; ecosystems; habitat destruction; landscapes; models; refuge habitats; topography; viability; Himalayan region
Abstract:
... The mountain ecosystems are fragile because of topography and extreme climatic conditions. The Hindu-Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is a biodiversity-rich ecosystem and highly vulnerable to climate change and anthropogenic activities among the mountains. In HKH, the climate change impacts on ecologically specialist species are already evident, but generalist species are not much studied. One such gen ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101622

6. Climate change vulnerability of terrestrial vertebrates in a major refuge and dispersal corridor in North America

Author:
Gengping Zhu; Monica Papeş; Paul R. Armsworth; Xingli Giam
Source:
Diversity & distributions 2022 v.28 no.6 pp. 1227-1241
ISSN:
1366-9516
Subject:
amphibians; climate; climate change; ecoregions; mammals; niches; species richness
Abstract:
... AIM: The Appalachian forests ecoregion in eastern North America supports a diverse and highly endemic temperate biota, which is potentially threatened by rapid climate change. We investigated possible outlooks for biodiversity in this biologically important ecoregion under future climate change. LOCATION: Appalachian forests ecoregion, USA. METHODS: We estimated distributional shifts for 258 fores ...
DOI:
10.1111/ddi.13528

7. Climate-induced treeline mortality during the termination of the Little Ice Age in the Greater Yellowstone Ecoregion, USA

Author:
Maegen L Rochner; Karen J Heeter; Grant L Harley; Matthew F Bekker; Sally P Horn
Source:
Holocene 2021 v.31 no.8 pp. 1288-1303
ISSN:
1477-0911
Subject:
Holocene epoch; Picea engelmannii; Pinus albicaulis; climate change; climatic factors; dendrochronology; ecoregions; ecosystems; frost; frost injury; growth rings; mortality; paleoclimatology; summer; temperature; temporal variation; tree growth; treeline; trees; Western United States
Abstract:
... Paleoclimate reconstructions for the western US show spatial variability in the timing, duration, and magnitude of climate changes within the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA, ca. 900–1350 CE) and Little Ice Age (LIA, ca. 1350–1850 CE), indicating that additional data are needed to more completely characterize late-Holocene climate change in the region. Here, we use dendrochronology to investigate ho ...
DOI:
10.1177/09596836211011656

8. Deep demersal fish communities respond rapidly to warming in a frontal region between Arctic and Atlantic waters

Author:
Margrete Emblemsvåg; Karl Michael Werner; Ismael Núñez‐Riboni; Romain Frelat; Helle Torp Christensen; Heino O. Fock; Raul Primicerio
Source:
Global change biology 2022 v.28 no.9 pp. 2979-2990
ISSN:
1354-1013
Subject:
climate; climate change; community structure; demersal fish; ecoregions; ecosystems; fish communities; food webs; sea ice; thermal stability; Arctic region; Greenland
Abstract:
... The assessment of climate impact on marine communities dwelling deeper than the well‐studied shelf seas has been hampered by the lack of long‐term data. For a long time, the prevailing expectation has been that thermal stability in deep ocean layers will delay ecosystem responses to warming. Few observational studies have challenged this view and indicated that deep organisms can respond exception ...
DOI:
10.1111/gcb.16113

9. Distribution shifts, potential refugia, and the performance of protected areas under climate change in the Araucaria moist forests ecoregion

Author:
Daniel Dutra Saraiva; Luíz Fernando Esser; Daniel Grasel; João André Jarenkow
Source:
Applied vegetation science 2021 v.24 no.4 pp. e12628
ISSN:
1402-2001
Subject:
Araucaria; climate; climate change; ecoregions; extinction; refuge habitats; risk; trees; Argentina; Brazil
Abstract:
... AIM: Araucaria moist forests are particularly vulnerable to climate change due to their strict climatic requirements and patchy distribution. Therefore, identifying areas where these forests are expected to lose or retain climatically suitable space (i.e., climate change refugia) is urgently required. Here, we modeled the current and future climatic suitability for Araucaria moist forests aiming: ...
DOI:
10.1111/avsc.12628

10. First circumpolar assessment of Arctic freshwater phytoplankton and zooplankton diversity: Spatial patterns and environmental factors

Author:
Ann Kristin Schartau; Heather L. Mariash; Kirsten S. Christoffersen; Daniel Bogan; Olga P. Dubovskaya; Elena B. Fefilova; Brian Hayden; Haraldur R. Ingvason; Elena A. Ivanova; Olga N. Kononova; Elena S. Kravchuk; Jennifer Lento; Markus Majaneva; Anna A. Novichkova; Milla Rautio; Kathleen M. R__hland; Rebecca Shaftel; John P. Smol; Tobias Vrede; Kimmo K. Kahilainen
Source:
Freshwater biology 2022 v.67 no.1 pp. 141-158
ISSN:
0046-5070
Subject:
Crustacea; Russia; air temperature; biodiversity; climate change; ecoregions; freshwater; latitude; limnology; nestedness; phytoplankton; summer; zooplankton; Alaska; Arctic region; Canada; Finland; Greenland; Iceland; Norway; Scandinavia; Sweden
Abstract:
... Arctic freshwaters are facing multiple environmental pressures, including rapid climate change and increasing land___use activities. Freshwater plankton assemblages are expected to reflect the effects of these stressors through shifts in species distributions and changes to biodiversity. These changes may occur rapidly due to the short generation times and high dispersal capabilities of both phyto ...
DOI:
10.1111/fwb.13783

11. Genetic diversity and historical demography in Bellamya gastropods from the Lake Victoria ecoregion reveal early and severe population collapse

Author:
Nathan V. Whelan; Ellen E. Strong
Source:
Molecular ecology 2021 v.30 no.2 pp. 361-363
ISSN:
0962-1083
Subject:
Bellamya; Cichlidae; Pleistocene epoch; adaptive radiation; climate change; community structure; demography; ecoregions; ecosystems; fauna; genetic variation; landscape genetics; phylogeography; population genetics; space and time; Lake Victoria
Abstract:
... Understanding the interplay between ecological and population genetic processes through space and time is a central goal of landscape genetics. However, most studies that place diversification dynamics in an ecological context have focused on vertebrates, leaving a significant gap in our understanding of the effects of ecosystem change on community composition and demography of invertebrates. In t ...
DOI:
10.1111/mec.15711

12. Geographic variation in acclimation responses of thermal tolerance in South African diving beetles (Dytiscidae: Coleoptera)

Author:
Amparo Hidalgo-Galiana; Ignacio Ribera; John S. Terblanche
Source:
Comparative biochemistry and physiology 2021 v.257 pp. 110955
ISSN:
1095-6433
Subject:
Dytiscidae; acclimation; animals; biochemistry; climate; climate change; drought; ecoregions; ecosystems; geographical variation; heat tolerance; indicator species; physiology; plasticity; South Africa
Abstract:
... Understanding sources of variation in animal thermal limits is critical to forecasting ecological responses to climate change. Here, we estimated upper and lower thermal limits, and their capacity to respond to thermal acclimation, in several species and populations of diving beetles (Dytiscidae) from diverse geographic regions representative of variable climate within South Africa. We also consid ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cbpa.2021.110955

13. Seasonal rainfall influences reproduction and recruitment of tropical penaeid shrimps: Implications to fisheries management

Author:
Matheus Souza Ferreira de Barros; José Gilmar Cavalcante de Oliveira Júnior; Cícero Diogo Lins de Oliveira; Taciana Kramer Pinto; Vandick da Silva Batista; Nidia Noemi Fabré
Source:
Fisheries oceanography 2022 v.31 no.2 pp. 191-204
ISSN:
1054-6006
Subject:
Litopenaeus schmitti; climate change; decision making; dry season; ecoregions; oceanography; primary productivity; rain; reproductive fitness; shrimp; wet season; Brazil
Abstract:
... Here, we present results from a study conducted in two major shrimp fishing grounds in the Northeastern Brazil Marine Ecoregion (NBME) that determined reproductive dynamics of the penaeid shrimps Xiphopenaeus kroyeri and Penaeus schmitti. We aimed to verify if the current closed season is appropriate and untangle the environmental drivers that control their dynamics. The periods of recruitment and ...
DOI:
10.1111/fog.12571

14. Sustaining ecosystem based adaptation: The lessons from policy and practices in Nepal

Author:
Sushma Bhattarai; Bimal Raj Regmi; Basant Pant; Dharam Raj Uprety; Tek Maraseni
Source:
Land use policy 2021 v.104 pp. 105391
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
case studies; climate; climate change; ecoregions; ecosystems; land policy; policy analysis; risk; Nepal
Abstract:
... The ecosystem based adaption (EbA) approach mobilizes ecosystem products and services to reduce people’s vulnerability and improve adaptation to climate change. The approach is being tested and promoted globally including Nepal. However, there are limited studies on why EbA faces challenges of mainstreaming and wider upscaling in developing countries' policies and practices. Based on an empirical ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105391

15. A dry future for the Everglades favors invasive herpetofauna

Author:
Hunter J. Howell; Giacomo L. Delgado; Alyssa C. Wood; Leila M. Thompson; Eric A. Cline; Christopher A. Searcy
Source:
Biological invasions 2021 v.23 no.10 pp. 3119-3133
ISSN:
1387-3547
Subject:
Everglades National Park; amphibians; climate change; community structure; data collection; ecoregions; ecosystems; endangered species; habitats; herpetofauna; hydrology; introduced species; landscapes; reptiles; surveys; wilderness; Florida
Abstract:
... The Greater Everglades Ecosystem is a globally important ecoregion, home to 68 threatened or endangered species and the largest designated wilderness area in the Eastern United States. Anthropogenic manipulations of the natural hydrology have led to widespread degradation of this ecosystem and monitored population declines across multiple taxa. Simultaneous introductions of hundreds of non-native ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10530-021-02562-z

16. Analyzing vegetation change in a sagebrush ecosystem using long‐term field observations and Landsat imagery in Wyoming

Author:
Hua Shi; Collin Homer; Matthew Rigge; Kory Postma; George Xian
Source:
Ecosphere 2020 v.11 no.12 pp. e03311
ISSN:
2150-8925
Subject:
Artemisia; Landsat; basins; climate change; ecoregions; ecosystems; shrublands; temperature; time series analysis; weather; Wyoming
Abstract:
... The importance of monitoring shrublands to detect and understand changes through time is increasingly recognized as critical to management. This research focuses on ecological change observed over 10 yr of field observation at 126 plots and over 35 yr of the Landsat archive in a shrubland ecosystem. Field data consisting of the fractional cover of shrubs, sagebrush, herbs, litter, and bare ground ...
DOI:
10.1002/ecs2.3311

17. Assessment of carbon sequestration potential of tropical tree species for urban forestry in India

Author:
Soumit K. Behera; Shruti Mishra; Nayan Sahu; N Manika; Shiv Naresh Singh; Sonik Anto; Rahul Kumar; Ragib Husain; Anil K. Verma; Nalini Pandey
Source:
Ecological engineering 2022 v.181 pp. 106692
ISSN:
0925-8574
Subject:
Syzygium cumini; Tectona grandis; aboveground biomass; allometry; biodiversity; biomass production; botanical gardens; carbon; carbon sequestration; carbon sinks; carboxylation; climate; climate change; decision making; ecoregions; ecosystems; growth performance; hydrologic cycle; indigenous species; introduced species; landscapes; leaf area index; nondestructive methods; photosynthesis; research institutions; stomatal conductance; tree and stand measurements; tree height; trees; tropical plants; urban forestry; water use efficiency; India
Abstract:
... Urban, peri urban and patch forests play a critical role in climate change mitigation through increased carbon storage and for that, it is imperative to assess the species response in an eco-region to recommend a potentially higher carbon sequestering species. In urban settings, green spaces, in particular, trees play a vital role in preserving biodiversity, reducing the impact of urban heat islan ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106692

18. Back to the future of a rare plant species of the Chihuahuan desert: tracing distribution patterns across time and genetic diversity as a basis for conservation actions

Author:
Ana Gabriela Zacarías-Correa; Andrés Lira-Noriega; Emmanuel Pérez-Calix; Marie-Stéphanie Samain; Andrea D. Wolfe
Source:
Biodiversity and conservation 2020 v.29 no.6 pp. 1821-1840
ISSN:
0960-3115
Subject:
Penstemon; biodiversity; climate change; ecoregions; genetic variation; geographical distribution; habitat fragmentation; indigenous species; niches; population genetics; rare species; temperate forests; wildlife management; Chihuahuan Desert
Abstract:
... Habitat fragmentation and its effects on the persistence of populations and species are of major concern to conservation biology. Penstemon coriaceus is a rare and endemic species from the Mexican Central Plateau and adjacent foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental, which belongs to the Chihuahuan Desert ecoregion. This is the first study that integrates population genet ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10531-020-01962-2

19. Beyond deforestation: Land cover transitions in Mexico

Author:
Martha Bonilla-Moheno; T. Mitchell Aide
Source:
Agricultural systems 2020 v.178 pp. 102734
ISSN:
0308-521X
Subject:
climate change; coasts; cotton; cropland; crops; deforestation; demography; deserts; drugs; dry forests; ecoregions; ecosystems; exports; grasslands; issues and policy; land cover; land use change; moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer; pastures; pecans; rural urban migration; tropical rain forests; violence; Latin America; Mexico
Abstract:
... Conversion of land cover is one of the main causes of global environmental change and identifying the regions where sustained trends of land change are occurring provides useful information for land and resources management. For all ecoregions in Mexico, we analyzed land use changes over 14 years (2001–2014) using MODIS images (250m) and identified regions that had significant gains or loss of woo ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.agsy.2019.102734

20. Changes in higher trophic level productivity, diversity and niche space in a rapidly warming continental shelf ecosystem

Author:
Kevin D. Friedland; Joseph A. Langan; Scott I. Large; Rebecca L. Selden; Jason S. Link; Reg A. Watson; Jeremy S. Collie
Source:
Science of the total environment 2020 v.704 pp. 135270
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
climate change; cold; continental shelf; dominant species; ecoregions; environmental factors; fish; fish communities; geographical distribution; habitats; macroinvertebrates; marine ecosystems; models; predators; probability; species diversity; taxonomy; trophic levels; United States
Abstract:
... There is long-standing ecological and socioeconomic interest in what controls the diversity and productivity of ecosystems. That focus has intensified with shifting environmental conditions associated with accelerating climate change. The U.S. Northeast Shelf (NES) is a well-studied continental shelf marine ecosystem that is among the more rapidly warming marine systems worldwide. Furthermore, man ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135270