The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people
University of Florida · KU Leuven · +19 more institutions
Abstract
Most ecological processes now show responses to anthropogenic climate change. In terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, species are changing genetically, physiologically, morphologically, and phenologically and are shifting their distributions, which affects food webs and results in new interactions. Disruptions scale from the gene to the ecosystem and have documented consequences for people, including unpredictable fisheries and crop yields, loss of genetic diversity in wild crop varieties, and increasing impacts of pests and diseases. In addition to the more easily observed changes, such as shifts in flowering phenology, we argue that many hidden dynamics, such as genetic changes, are also taking…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 130.26
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 302
Authors
17- BRBrett R. ScheffersCorresponding
University of Florida
- LDLuc De Meester
KU Leuven
- TCTom C. L. Bridge
Australian Research Council, Queensland Museum, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
- AAAry A. Hoffmann
The University of Melbourne, AgriBio
- JMJohn M. Pandolfi
Australian Research Council
Topics & keywords
- Biome
- Climate change
- Ecosystem
- Global warming
- Global change
- Biodiversity
- Natural resource economics
- Ecology
- Climate action