abstract：:One striking feature of coral reef ecosystems is the complex benthic architecture which supports diverse and abundant fauna, particularly of reef fish. Reef-building corals are in decline worldwide, with a corresponding loss of live coral cover resulting in a loss of architectural complexity. Understanding the dynamic...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Bozec YM,Alvarez-Filip L,Mumby PJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil carbon cycling processes potentially play a large role in biotic feedbacks to climate change, but little agreement exists at present on what the core of numerical soil C cycling models should look like. In contrast, most canopy models of photosynthesis and leaf gas exchange share a common 'Farquhaur-model' core s...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Davidson EA,Savage KE,Finzi AC

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate assessments of forest response to current and future climate and human actions are needed at regional scales. Predicting future impacts on forests will require improved analysis of species-level adaptation, resilience, and vulnerability to mortality. Land system models can be enhanced by creating trait-based ...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Law BE

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied forest monitoring data collected at permanent plots in Italy over the period 2000-2009 to identify the possible impact of nitrogen (N) deposition on soil chemistry, tree nutrition and growth. Average N throughfall (N-NO3 +N-NH4 ) ranged between 4 and 29 kg ha(-1)  yr(-1) , with Critical Loads (CLs) for nutr...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Ferretti M,Marchetto A,Arisci S,Bussotti F,Calderisi M,Carnicelli S,Cecchini G,Fabbio G,Bertini G,Matteucci G,de Cinti B,Salvati L,Pompei E

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the type and strength of interactions between local anthropogenic and other stressors can help to set achievable management targets for degraded marine ecosystems and support their resilience by identifying local actions. We undertook a meta-analysis, using data from 118 studies to test the hypothesis that...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Strain EM,Thomson RJ,Micheli F,Mancuso FP,Airoldi L

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The establishment of either forest or grassland on degraded cropland has been proposed as an effective method for climate change mitigation because these land use types can increase soil carbon (C) stocks. This paper synthesized 135 recent publications (844 observations at 181 sites) focused on the conversion from cro...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Deng L,Liu GB,Shangguan ZP

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-altitude treelines are temperature-limited vegetation boundaries, but little quantitative evidence exists about the impact of climate change on treelines in untouched areas of Russia. Here, we estimated how forest-tundra ecotones have changed during the last century along the Ural mountains. In the South, North, ...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Hagedorn F,Shiyatov SG,Mazepa VS,Devi NM,Grigor'ev AA,Bartysh AA,Fomin VV,Kapralov DS,Terent'ev M,Bugman H,Rigling A,Moiseev PA

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:Globally, spatial distributions of fish stocks are shifting but although the role of climate change in range shifts is increasingly appreciated, little remains known of the likely additional impact that high levels of fishing pressure might have on distribution. For North Sea cod, we show for the first time and in gre...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Engelhard GH,Righton DA,Pinnegar JK

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to forecast changes in the spatial distributions of species and communities in response to climate change. However, spatial autocorrelation (SA) is rarely accounted for in these models, despite its ubiquity in broad-scale ecological data. While spatial autocorrelation...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Crase B,Liedloff A,Vesk PA,Fukuda Y,Wintle BA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lignin is an aromatic plant compound that decomposes more slowly than other organic matter compounds; however, it was recently shown that lignin could decompose as fast as litter bulk carbon in minerals soils. In alpine Histosols, where organic matter dynamics is largely unaffected by mineral constituents, lignin may ...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Duboc O,Dignac MF,Djukic I,Zehetner F,Gerzabek MH,Rumpel C

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the rapidly expanding ecological footprint of agriculture, the design of farmed landscapes will play an increasingly important role for both carbon storage and biodiversity protection. Carbon and biodiversity can be enhanced by integrating natural habitats into agricultural lands, but a key question is whether be...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Gilroy JJ,Woodcock P,Edwards FA,Wheeler C,Medina Uribe CA,Haugaasen T,Edwards DP

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simultaneously with warming climate, other climatic and environmental factors are also changing. Here, we investigated for the first time the effects of elevated temperature, increased ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation, fertilization and all combinations of these on the growth, secondary chemistry and needle structure of ...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Virjamo V,Sutinen S,Julkunen-Tiitto R

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing conservation strategies for threatened species increasingly requires understanding vulnerabilities to climate change, in terms of both demographic sensitivities to climatic and other environmental factors, and exposure to variability in those factors over time and space. We conducted a range-wide, spatially...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Pomara LY,LeDee OE,Martin KJ,Zuckerberg B

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increase of belowground C allocation by plants under global warming or elevated CO2 may promote decomposition of soil organic carbon (SOC) by priming and strongly affects SOC dynamics. The specific effects by priming of SOC depend on the amount and frequency of C inputs. Most previous priming studies have investigated...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Qiao N,Schaefer D,Blagodatskaya E,Zou X,Xu X,Kuzyakov Y

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Blue Carbon', which is carbon captured by marine living organisms, has recently been highlighted as a new option for climate change mitigation initiatives. In particular, coastal ecosystems have been recognized as significant carbon stocks because of their high burial rates and long-term sequestration of carbon. Howe...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Tokoro T,Hosokawa S,Miyoshi E,Tada K,Watanabe K,Montani S,Kayanne H,Kuwae T

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coral bleaching has become more frequent and widespread as a result of rising sea surface temperature (SST). During a regional scale SST anomaly, reef exposure to thermal stress is patchy in part due to physical factors that reduce SST to provide thermal refuge. Tropical cyclones (TCs - hurricanes, typhoons) can induc...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Carrigan AD,Puotinen M

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil CO2 efflux (Fsoil ) is the largest source of carbon from forests and reflects primary productivity as well as how carbon is allocated within forest ecosystems. Through early stages of stand development, both elevated [CO2] and availability of soil nitrogen (N; sum of mineralization, deposition, and fixation) have...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Oishi AC,Palmroth S,Johnsen KH,McCarthy HR,Oren R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the drivers of phenological events is vital for forecasting species' responses to climate change. We developed flexible Bayesian survival regression models to assess a 29-year, individual-level time series of flowering phenology from four taxa of Japanese cherry trees (Prunus spachiana, Prunus × yedoensi...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Allen JM,Terres MA,Katsuki T,Iwamoto K,Kobori H,Higuchi H,Primack RB,Wilson AM,Gelfand A,Silander JA Jr

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equatorial populations of marine species are predicted to be most impacted by global warming because they could be adapted to a narrow range of temperatures in their local environment. We investigated the thermal range at which aerobic metabolic performance is optimum in equatorial populations of coral reef fish in no...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Rummer JL,Couturier CS,Stecyk JA,Gardiner NM,Kinch JP,Nilsson GE,Munday PL

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of global land surface warming, extreme temperature events are expected to occur more often and more intensely, affecting the growth and development of the major cereal crops in several ways, thus affecting the production component of food security. In this study, we have identified rice and maize crop respons...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Sánchez B,Rasmussen A,Porter JR

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The snow-masking effect of vegetation exerts strong control on albedo in northern high latitude ecosystems. Large-scale changes in the distribution and stature of vegetation in this region will thus have important feedbacks to climate. The snow-albedo feedback is controlled largely by the contrast between snow-covered...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Loranty MM,Berner LT,Goetz SJ,Jin Y,Randerson JT

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change is projected to push the limits of cropping systems and has the potential to disrupt the agricultural sector from local to global scales. This article introduces the Coordinated Climate-Crop Modeling Project (C3MP), an initiative of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) ...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Ruane AC,McDermid S,Rosenzweig C,Baigorria GA,Jones JW,Romero CC,Dewayne Cecil L

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：:Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has frequently been observed to increase soil carbon (C) storage in forests, but the underlying mechanisms still remain unclear. Changes in microbial community composition and substrate use are hypothesized to be one of the key mechanisms affected by N inputs. Here, we investigated ...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Griepentrog M,Bodé S,Boeckx P,Hagedorn F,Heim A,Schmidt MW

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The stability and persistence of coral reefs in the decades to come is uncertain due to global warming and repeated bleaching events that will lead to reduced resilience of these ecological and socio-economically important ecosystems. Identifying key refugia is potentially important for future conservation actions. We...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Fine M,Gildor H,Genin A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations are placing spatially divergent stresses on the world's tropical coral reefs through increasing ocean surface temperatures and ocean acidification. We show how these two stressors combine to alter the global habitat suitability for shallow coral reef ecosystems, using statistical ...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Couce E,Ridgwell A,Hendy EJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global soil carbon pool is approximately three times larger than the contemporary atmospheric pool, therefore even minor changes to its integrity may have major implications for atmospheric CO2 concentrations. While theory predicts that the chemical composition of organic matter should constitute a master control ...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Erhagen B,Öquist M,Sparrman T,Haei M,Ilstedt U,Hedenström M,Schleucher J,Nilsson MB

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, there have been several studies using open top chambers (OTCs) or cloches to examine the response of Arctic plant communities to artificially elevated temperatures. Few, however, have investigated multitrophic systems, or the effects of both temperature and vertebrate grazing treatments on invertebrates. Thi...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Gillespie MA,Jónsdóttir IS,Hodkinson ID,Cooper EJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：:Diagnostic carbon cycle models produce estimates of net ecosystem production (NEP, the balance of net primary production and heterotrophic respiration) by integrating information from (i) satellite-based observations of land surface vegetation characteristics; (ii) distributed meteorological data; and (iii) eddy covar...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Turner DP,Jacobson AR,Ritts WD,Wang WL,Nemani R

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate warming is occurring at an unprecedented rate in the Arctic and is having profound effects on host-parasite interactions, including range expansion. Recently, two species of protostrongylid nematodes have emerged for the first time in muskoxen and caribou on Victoria Island in the western Canadian Arctic Archi...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Kutz SJ,Checkley S,Verocai GG,Dumond M,Hoberg EP,Peacock R,Wu JP,Orsel K,Seegers K,Warren AL,Abrams A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate warming has been linked to an apparent general decrease in body sizes of ectotherms, both across and within taxa, especially in aquatic systems. Smaller body size in warmer geographical regions has also been widely observed. Since body size is a fundamental determinant of many biological attributes, climate-wa...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Adams GL,Pichler DE,Cox EJ,O'Gorman EJ,Seeney A,Woodward G,Reuman DC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both elevated ozone (O(3)) and limiting soil nitrogen (N) availability negatively affect crop performance. However, less is known about how the combination of elevated O(3) and limiting N affect crop growth and metabolism. In this study, we grew tobacco (Nicotiana sylvestris) in ambient and elevated O(3) at two N leve...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Yendrek CR,Leisner CP,Ainsworth EA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite decades of work on climate change biology, the scientific community remains uncertain about where and when most species distributions will respond to altered climates. A major barrier is the spatial mismatch between the size of organisms and the scale at which climate data are collected and modeled. Using a me...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Potter KA,Arthur Woods H,Pincebourde S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change likely will lead to increasingly favourable environmental conditions for many parasites. However, predictions regarding parasitism's impacts often fail to account for the likely variability in host distribution and how this may alter parasite occurrence. Here, we investigate potential distributional shi...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Pickles RS,Thornton D,Feldman R,Marques A,Murray DL

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have quantitatively projected changes in demography in response to climate change, yet doing so can provide important insights into the processes that may lead to population declines and changes in species distributions. Using a long-term mark-recapture data set, we examined the influence of multiple direc...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Dybala KE,Eadie JM,Gardali T,Seavy NE,Herzog MP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 40 years, acid deposition has been recognized as a serious international environmental problem, but efforts to restore acidified streams and biota have had limited success. The need to better understand the effects of different sources of acidity on streams has become more pressing with the recent increases i...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Pound KL,Lawrence GB,Passy SI

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change (CC) and sea level rise (SLR) are phenomena that could have severe impacts on the distribution of coastal dune vegetation. To explore this we modeled the climatic niches of six coastal dunes plant species that grow along the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula, and projected climat...

journal_title：Global change biology

authors： Mendoza-González G,Martínez ML,Rojas-Soto OR,Vázquez G,Gallego-Fernández JB

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00