Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_AB8EB95EF9A1
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
Collection
Publications
Title
Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity.
Journal
Ecology letters
Author(s)
Bellard C., Bertelsmeier C., Leadley P., Thuiller W., Courchamp F.
ISSN
1461-0248 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1461-023X
Publication state
Published
Issued date
04/2012
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
15
Number
4
Pages
365-377
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Many studies in recent years have investigated the effects of climate change on the future of biodiversity. In this review, we first examine the different possible effects of climate change that can operate at individual, population, species, community, ecosystem and biome scales, notably showing that species can respond to climate change challenges by shifting their climatic niche along three non-exclusive axes: time (e.g. phenology), space (e.g. range) and self (e.g. physiology). Then, we present the principal specificities and caveats of the most common approaches used to estimate future biodiversity at global and sub-continental scales and we synthesise their results. Finally, we highlight several challenges for future research both in theoretical and applied realms. Overall, our review shows that current estimates are very variable, depending on the method, taxonomic group, biodiversity loss metrics, spatial scales and time periods considered. Yet, the majority of models indicate alarming consequences for biodiversity, with the worst-case scenarios leading to extinction rates that would qualify as the sixth mass extinction in the history of the earth.
Keywords
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation of Natural Resources, Ecosystem, Models, Theoretical, Population Dynamics, climate change, species extinctions
Pubmed
Web of science
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27/07/2023 14:58
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