Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions
University of Oxford · University of California, Riverside · +6 more institutions
Abstract
The rapid anthropogenic climate change that is being experienced in the early twenty-first century is intimately entwined with the health and functioning of the biosphere. Climate change is impacting ecosystems through changes in mean conditions and in climate variability, coupled with other associated changes such as increased ocean acidification and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. It also interacts with other pressures on ecosystems, including degradation, defaunation and fragmentation. There is a need to understand the ecological dynamics of these climate impacts, to identify hotspots of vulnerability and resilience and to identify management interventions that may assist biosphere resilience to…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 40.98
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- 100%
- References
- 29
Authors
7Topics & keywords
- Climate change
- Biosphere
- Ecosystem
- Environmental resource management
- Ecological forecasting
- Vulnerability (computing)
- Ocean acidification
- Psychological resilience
- Climate action