Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects
Climate change that stimulates tree growth can make smaller trees produce more seeds per year, but also can render larger trees less able to reproduce.Read More →
Shifts in global bat diversity suggest a possible role of climate change in the emergence of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2
The number of coronaviruses in an area is strongly correlated with local bat species richness, which in turn is affected by climatic conditions. Climate change may have played a key role in the evolution or transmission of the two SARS CoVs.Read More →
Extinction risk assessment of a Patagonian ungulate using population dynamics models under climate change scenarios
Huemul population is currently in a quasi-extinction process, with extinction probabilities increasing with climate change.These results are crucial for conservation of species like huemul that have low densities and are threatened by climate change.Read More →
Recent responses to climate change reveal the drivers of species extinction and survival
This study addresses the specific changes in climate that were associated with recent population extinctions, using data from 538 plant and animal species distributed globally. Read More →
Climate change contributes to widespread declines among bumble bees across continents
Using long-term data for 66 bumble bee species across North America and Europe, the study tested whether this mechanism altered likelihoods of bumble bee species’ extinction or colonization. Read More →
Climate-human interaction associated with southeast Australian megafauna extinction patterns
This study develops a statistical approach to infer spatio-temporal trajectories of megafauna extirpations (local extinctions) and initial human appearance in south-eastern Australia.Read More →
Climate change causes upslope shifts and mountaintop extirpations in a tropical bird community
This study suggests that high-elevation species in the tropics are particularly vulnerable to climate change. The study shows that recent warming does indeed act as an escalator to extinction for birds that live on a remote Peruvian mountain.Read More →
Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering
This study shows that microclimatic heterogeneity has strongly buffered species against regional extirpations linked to recent climate change.Read More →
How to include the impact of climate change in the extinction risk assessment of policy plant species?
This study presents an approach in which the effect of climate change on plant species spatial distribution is used to prioritize conservation within IUCN categories.Read More →
Extinction risks forced by climatic change and intraspecific variation in the thermal physiology of a tropical lizard
The study's results support the hypothesis that tropical-lizard taxa are at high risk of local extinction caused by increasing temperatures.Read More →