scholarly journals Are winter and breeding bird communities able to track rapid climate change? Lessons from the high North

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Santangeli ◽  
Aleksi Lehikoinen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Bird Communities ◽  
Breeding Bird ◽  
Rapid Climate Change

Trends in the Composition of Breeding Bird Communities: Anthropogenic or Climate Change Induced Process?

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mečislovas Žalakevičius ◽  
Vitas Stanevičius ◽  
Galina Bartkevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Bird Communities ◽  
Breeding Bird

Effects of high latitude protected areas on bird communities under rapid climate change

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 2241-2249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Santangeli ◽  
Ari Rajasärkkä ◽  
Aleksi Lehikoinen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
High Latitude ◽  
Bird Communities ◽  
Rapid Climate Change

Modelling ecosystem adaptation and dangerous rates of global warming

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Millington ◽  
Peter M. Cox ◽  
Jonathan R. Moore ◽  
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Diffusion Rate ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Genetic Evolution ◽  
Rates Of Change ◽  
Rapid Climate Change ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Intraspecies Competition ◽  
High Trait

Abstract We are in a period of relatively rapid climate change. This poses challenges for individual species and threatens the ecosystem services that humanity relies upon. Temperature is a key stressor. In a warming climate, individual organisms may be able to shift their thermal optima through phenotypic plasticity. However, such plasticity is unlikely to be sufficient over the coming centuries. Resilience to warming will also depend on how fast the distribution of traits that define a species can adapt through other methods, in particular through redistribution of the abundance of variants within the population and through genetic evolution. In this paper, we use a simple theoretical ‘trait diffusion’ model to explore how the resilience of a given species to climate change depends on the initial trait diversity (biodiversity), the trait diffusion rate (mutation rate), and the lifetime of the organism. We estimate theoretical dangerous rates of continuous global warming that would exceed the ability of a species to adapt through trait diffusion, and therefore lead to a collapse in the overall productivity of the species. As the rate of adaptation through intraspecies competition and genetic evolution decreases with species lifetime, we find critical rates of change that also depend fundamentally on lifetime. Dangerous rates of warming vary from 1°C per lifetime (at low trait diffusion rate) to 8°C per lifetime (at high trait diffusion rate). We conclude that rapid climate change is liable to favour short-lived organisms (e.g. microbes) rather than longer-lived organisms (e.g. trees).

Functional evenness of bird communities varies along the elevational gradient in Europe: Conservation implications

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Morelli ◽  
Yanina
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Elevation Gradient ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Bird Communities ◽  
Breeding Bird ◽  
Bird Species Richness ◽  
Large Spatial Scale ◽  
Functional Evenness

ContextThe negative association between elevation and species richness is a well-recognized pattern in macro-ecology. ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to investigate changes in functional evenness of breeding bird communities along an elevation gradient in Europe. MethodsUsing the bird data from the EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds we estimated an index of functional evenness which can be assumed as a measure of the potential resilience of communities.ResultsOur findings confirm the existence of a negative association between elevation and bird species richness in all European eco regions. However, we also explored a novel aspect of this relationship, important for conservation: Our findings provide evidence at large spatial scale of a negative association between the functional evenness (potential community resilience) and elevation, independent of the eco region. We also found that the Natura2000 protected areas covers the territory most in need of protection, those characterized by bird communities with low potential resilience, in hilly and mountainous areas.ConclusionsThese results draw attention to European areas occupied by bird communities characterized by a potential lower capacity to respond to strong ecological changes, and, therefore, potentially more exposed to risks for conservation.

The need to understand the stability of arctic vegetation during rapid climate change: An assessment of imbalance in the literature

AMBIO ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry V. Callaghan ◽  
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti ◽  
Gareth Phoenix
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Arctic Vegetation ◽  
Rapid Climate Change ◽  
The Stability

scholarly journals Engineering Climate-Change-Resilient Crops: New Tools and Approaches

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (15) ◽  
pp. 7877
Author(s):  
Fahimeh Shahinnia ◽  
Néstor Carrillo ◽  
Mohammad-Reza Hajirezaei
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Plant Growth ◽  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Stress Tolerance ◽  
Crop Yield ◽  
Plant Science ◽  
Chemical Treatments ◽  
Coated Nanoparticles ◽  
Rapid Climate Change ◽  
Protective Resources

Environmental adversities, particularly drought and nutrient limitation, are among the major causes of crop losses worldwide. Due to the rapid increase of the world’s population, there is an urgent need to combine knowledge of plant science with innovative applications in agriculture to protect plant growth and thus enhance crop yield. In recent decades, engineering strategies have been successfully developed with the aim to improve growth and stress tolerance in plants. Most strategies applied so far have relied on transgenic approaches and/or chemical treatments. However, to cope with rapid climate change and the need to secure sustainable agriculture and biomass production, innovative approaches need to be developed to effectively meet these challenges and demands. In this review, we summarize recent and advanced strategies that involve the use of plant-related cyanobacterial proteins, macro- and micronutrient management, nutrient-coated nanoparticles, and phytopathogenic organisms, all of which offer promise as protective resources to shield plants from climate challenges and to boost stress tolerance in crops.

scholarly journals New insights into lake responses to rapid climate change: the Younger Dryas in Lake Gościąż, central Poland

Boreas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Müller ◽  
Rik Tjallingii ◽  
Mateusz Płóciennik ◽  
Tomi P. Luoto ◽  
Bartosz Kotrys ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Younger Dryas ◽  
Central Poland ◽  
Rapid Climate Change

The Breeding Bird Communities of Three Canberra Suburbs

1990 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lenz
Keyword(s):  
Bird Communities ◽  
Breeding Bird

Rapid climate change has increased post‐breeding and autumn bird density at the eastern limit of Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-242
Author(s):  
Oleg Askeyev ◽  
Arthur Askeyev ◽  
Igor Askeyev ◽  
Tim Sparks
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Bird Density ◽  
Rapid Climate Change
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document