Ecological Consequences of Recent Climate Change

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. McCarty
Author(s):  
Eric Post

This introductory chapter summarizes the most prominent abiotic components of recent climate change to establish the environmental context from which the discussion in the rest of the book proceeds. From an ecological perspective, climate change is most meaningfully considered as the suite of abiotic changes occurring across Earth coincident with the onset of the Industrial Revolution and progressing over the past 150 years. These abiotic changes include rising temperatures, temperature variability, changes in precipitation and snow cover, and diminishing sea and land ice. All these changes can be linked to ecological dynamics, though it is probably fair to state that most research to date on the ecological consequences of climate change has focused on temperature changes.


2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Bhend ◽  
Penny Whetton

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric N. Powell ◽  
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Kelsey Kuykendall ◽  
Paula Moreno ◽  
Sara Pace

2015 ◽  
pp. 48-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Orlove ◽  
Heather Lazrus ◽  
Grete K. Hovelsrud ◽  
Alessandra Giannini

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