How ecologists define drought, and why we should do better.

abstract：:Predicting the biological effects of climate change presents major challenges due to the interplay of potential biotic and abiotic mechanisms. Climate change can create unexpected outcomes by altering species interactions, and uncertainty over the ability of species to develop in situ tolerance or track environmental ...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Amundrud SL,Srivastava DS

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The permafrost organic carbon (OC) stock is of global significance because of its large pool size and the potential positive feedback to climate warming. However, due to the lack of systematic field observations and appropriate upscaling methodologies, substantial uncertainties exist in the permafrost OC budget, which...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Ding J,Li F,Yang G,Chen L,Zhang B,Liu L,Fang K,Qin S,Chen Y,Peng Y,Ji C,He H,Smith P,Yang Y

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development efforts for poverty reduction and food security in sub-Saharan Africa will have to consider future climate change impacts. Large uncertainties in climate change impact assessments do not necessarily complicate, but can inform development strategies. The design of development strategies will need to conside...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Müller C,Waha K,Bondeau A,Heinke J

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many taxa are undergoing distribution shifts in response to anthropogenic climate change. However, detecting a climate signal in mobile species is difficult due to their wide-ranging, patchy distributions, often driven by natural climate variability. For example, difficulties associated with assessing pelagic fish dis...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Hill NJ,Tobin AJ,Reside AE,Pepperell JG,Bridge TC

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ecosystem models play a crucial role in understanding and evaluating the combined impacts of rising atmospheric CO2 concentration and changing climate on terrestrial ecosystems. However, we are not aware of any studies where the capacity of models to simulate intra- and inter-annual variation in responses to elevated ...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Li FY,Newton PC,Lieffering M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global climate warming is predicted to hasten the onset of spring breeding by anuran amphibians in seasonal environments. Previous data had indicated that the breeding phenology of a population of Fowler's Toads (Anaxyrus fowleri) at their northern range limit had been progressively later in spring, contrary to genera...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Green DM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic activities have led to the biotic homogenization of many ecological communities, yet in coastal systems this phenomenon remains understudied. In particular, activities that locally affect marine habitat-forming foundation species may perturb habitat and promote species with generalist, opportunistic trai...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Iacarella JC,Adamczyk E,Bowen D,Chalifour L,Eger A,Heath W,Helms S,Hessing-Lewis M,Hunt BPV,MacInnis A,O'Connor MI,Robinson CLK,Yakimishyn J,Baum JK

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Air temperatures in the arid western United States are predicted to increase over the next century. These increases will likely impact the distribution of plant species, particularly dioecious species that show a spatial segregation of the sexes across broad resource gradients. On the basis of spatial segregation patt...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Hultine KR,Burtch KG,Ehleringer JR

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Boulanger et al. (2018), we investigated the effects of ungulates on forest plant diversity. By suggesting a revisit of our conclusions regarding ecosystem dynamics since the late Pleistocene, Fløjgaard et al. (2018) came to the conclusion that moderate grazing in forest should be a conservation target. Since major...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Boulanger V,Dupouey JL,Archaux F,Badeau V,Baltzinger C,Chevalier R,Corcket E,Dumas Y,Forgeard F,Mårell A,Montpied P,Paillet Y,Saïd S,Ulrich E

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is expected to cause geographic shifts in tree species' ranges, but such shifts may not keep pace with climate changes because seed dispersal distances are often limited and competition-induced changes in community composition can be relatively slow. Disturbances may speed changes in community compositi...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Liang Y,Duveneck MJ,Gustafson EJ,Serra-Diaz JM,Thompson JR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant water-use efficiency (WUE, the carbon gained through photosynthesis per unit of water lost through transpiration) is a tracer of the plant physiological controls on the exchange of water and carbon dioxide between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. At the leaf level, rising CO2 concentrations tend to inc...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Lavergne A,Graven H,De Kauwe MG,Keenan TF,Medlyn BE,Prentice IC

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A global warming-induced transition from glacial to periglacial processes has been identified in mountainous regions around the world. Degrading permafrost in pristine periglacial environments can produce acid rock drainage (ARD) and cause severe ecological damage in areas underlain by sulfide-bearing bedrock. Limnolo...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Ilyashuk BP,Ilyashuk EA,Psenner R,Tessadri R,Koinig KA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus (P) is an essential macro-nutrient required for plant metabolism and growth. Low P availability could potentially limit plant responses to elevated carbon dioxide (eCO2 ), but consensus has yet to be reached on the extent of this limitation. Here, based on data from experiments that manipulated both CO2 and...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Jiang M,Caldararu S,Zhang H,Fleischer K,Crous KY,Yang J,De Kauwe MG,Ellsworth DS,Reich PB,Tissue DT,Zaehle S,Medlyn BE

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:White light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are rapidly replacing conventional outdoor lighting technologies around the world. Despite rising concerns over their impact on the environment and human health, the flexibility of LEDs has been advocated as a means of mitigating the ecological impacts of globally widespread outdoor ...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Davies TW,Bennie J,Cruse D,Blumgart D,Inger R,Gaston KJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the aftermath of the 2015 pandemic of Zika virus (ZIKV), concerns over links between climate change and emerging arboviruses have become more pressing. Given the potential that much of the world might remain at risk from the virus, we used a previously established temperature-dependent transmission model for ZIKV t...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Ryan SJ,Carlson CJ,Tesla B,Bonds MH,Ngonghala CN,Mordecai EA,Johnson LR,Murdock CC

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most tree roots on Earth form a symbiosis with either ecto- or arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Nitrogen fertilization is hypothesized to favor arbuscular mycorrhizal tree species at the expense of ectomycorrhizal species due to differences in fungal nitrogen acquisition strategies, and this may alter soil carbon balance...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Averill C,Dietze MC,Bhatnagar JM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protected areas (PAs) cover about 22% of the conterminous United States. Understanding their role on historical land use and land cover change (LULCC) and on the carbon cycle is essential to provide guidance for environmental policies. In this study, we compiled historical LULCC and PAs data to explore these interacti...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Lu X,Zhou Y,Liu Y,Le Page Y

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Land use for animal production influences the earth system in a variety of ways, including local-scale modification to biodiversity, soils, and nutrient cycling; regional changes in albedo and hydrology; and global-scale changes in greenhouse gas and aerosol concentrations. Pasture is furthermore the single most exten...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Phelps LN,Kaplan JO

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:South Asia experienced a weakening of summer monsoon circulation in the past several decades, resulting in rainfall decline in wet regions. In comparison with other tropical ecosystems, quantitative assessments of the extent and triggers of vegetation change are lacking in assessing climate-change impacts over South A...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Wang X,Wang T,Liu D,Guo H,Huang H,Zhao Y

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exponentially rising CO2 (currently ~400 μatm) is driving climate change and causing acidification of both marine and freshwater environments. Physiologists have long known that CO2 directly affects acid-base and ion regulation, respiratory function and aerobic performance in aquatic animals. More recently, many studi...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Ellis RP,Urbina MA,Wilson RW

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate variation has been linked to historical and predicted future distributions and dynamics of wildlife populations. However, demographic mechanisms underlying these changes remain poorly understood. Here, we assessed variation and trends in climate (annual snowfall and spring temperature anomalies) and avian demo...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Saracco JF,Siegel RB,Helton L,Stock SL,DeSante DF

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is critical to accurately estimate carbon (C) turnover time as it dominates the uncertainty in ecosystem C sinks and their response to future climate change. In the absence of direct observations of ecosystem C losses, C turnover times are commonly estimated under the steady state assumption (SSA), which has been a...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Ge R,He H,Ren X,Zhang L,Yu G,Smallman TL,Zhou T,Yu SY,Luo Y,Xie Z,Wang S,Wang H,Zhou G,Zhang Q,Wang A,Fan Z,Zhang Y,Shen W,Yin H,Lin L

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) is a key crop in many tropical countries and globally provides an export value of over US$13 billion per year. Wild Arabica coffee is of fundamental importance for the global coffee sector and of direct importance within Ethiopia, as a source of harvestable income and planting stock. Pu...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Moat J,Gole TW,Davis AP

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent observations have shown that increases in climate change-related coral mortality cause changes in shallow coral reef community structure through phase shifts to alternative taxa. As a result, sponges have emerged as a potential candidate taxon to become a "winner," and therefore a numerically and functionally d...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Lesser MP,Slattery M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals must balance a series of costs and benefits while trying to maximize their fitness. For example, an individual may need to choose how much energy to allocate to reproduction versus growth, or how much time to spend on vigilance versus foraging. Their decisions depend on complex interactions between environment...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Reimer JR,Mangel M,Derocher AE,Lewis MA

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most North American forests are at some stage of post-disturbance regrowth, subject to a changing climate, and exhibit growth and mortality patterns that may not be closely coupled to annual environmental conditions. Distinguishing the possibly interacting effects of these processes is necessary to put short-term stud...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Bond-Lamberty B,Rocha AV,Calvin K,Holmes B,Wang C,Goulden ML

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenological events, such as bud burst, are strongly linked to ecosystem processes in temperate deciduous forests. However, the exact nature and magnitude of how seasonal and interannual variation in air temperatures influence phenology is poorly understood, and model-based phenology representations fail to capture lo...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Melaas EK,Friedl MA,Richardson AD

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forest regeneration following disturbance is a key ecological process, influencing forest structure and function, species assemblages, and ecosystem-climate interactions. Climate change may alter forest recovery dynamics or even prevent recovery, triggering feedbacks to the climate system, altering regional biodiversi...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Anderson-Teixeira KJ,Miller AD,Mohan JE,Hudiburg TW,Duval BD,Delucia EH

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining soil carbon (C) responses to rising temperature is critical for projections of the feedbacks between terrestrial ecosystems, C cycle, and climate change. However, the direction and magnitude of this feedback remain highly uncertain due largely to our limited understanding of the spatial heterogeneity of so...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Li J,Nie M,Pendall E,Reich PB,Pei J,Noh NJ,Zhu T,Li B,Fang C

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the Earth's temperature continues to rise, coral bleaching events become more frequent. Some of the most affected reef ecosystems are located in poorly monitored waters, and thus, the extent of the damage is unknown. We propose the use of marine heatwaves (MHWs) as a new approach for detecting coral reef zones susc...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Genevier LGC,Jamil T,Raitsos DE,Krokos G,Hoteit I

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00