Species Impacts Archives - Climate Attribution

Temperature Thresholds Induce Abrupt Shifts in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Montane Ecosystems Worldwide

Published:April 2025

Author(s):Xiao-Min Zeng, Miguel Berdugo, Tadeo Saez-Sandino, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

Publisher:PNAS

This study finds that biodiversity and ecosystem services have abrupt responses to local temperature variation, which highlights the sensitivity of montane ecosystems to climate change.Read More →

Human-Induced Climate Change has Decreased Wheat Production in Northern Kazakhstan

Published:June 2024

Author(s):Paula Romanovska, Sabine Undorf, Bernhard Schauberger, Aigerim Duisenbekova, Christoph Gornott

Publisher:Environmental Research: Climate

In this peer-reviewed study, the authors quantify the impact of human-induced climate change on the average wheat production and associated economic revenues in northern Kazakhstan in the 21st centuryRead More →

State of the World’s Migratory Species

Published:February 2024

Author(s):Frances Davis, Andrew Szopa-Comley, Sarah Rouse, Aude Caromel, Andy Arnell, Saloni Basrur, Nina Bhola, Holly Brooks, Giulia Costa-Domingo, Cleo Cunningham, Katie Hunter, Matt Kaplan, Abigail Sheppard, Kelly Malsch

Publisher:United Nations Environment Programme

This report, the first ever State of the World’s Migratory Species, reveals that the survival of more than 25% of migratory species is threatened by climate change.Read More →

A physiological approach for assessing human survivability and liveability to heat in a changing climate

Published:November 2023

Author(s):Jennifer Vanos, Gisel Guzman-Echavarria, Jane W. Baldwin, Coen Bongers, Kristie L. Ebi, Ollie Jay

Publisher:Nature Communications

This peer-reviewed study applies physiological and biophysical principles to improve current estimates of survivability and livability under current and future climates. The authors conclude that current methodologies vastly underestimate such risks.Read More →

Key tropical crops at risk from pollinator loss due to climate change and land use

Published:October 2023

Author(s):Joseph Millard, Charlotte L. Outhwaite, Silvia Ceaușu, Luísa G. Carvalheiro, Felipe Deodato da Silvae Silva, Lynn V. Dicks, Jeff Ollerton, Tim Newbold

Publisher:Science Advances

This peer-reviewed study presents a global assessment of the interactive effects of climate change and land use on pollinator abundance, and attempts to predict how these changes might translate into agricultural risk worldwide.Read More →

Unlock the Endangered Species Act to address GHG emissions

Published:August 2023

Author(s):Steven C. Amstrup, Cecilia M. Bitz

Publisher:Science

This peer-reviewed policy forum piece quantifies the relationship between anthropogenic GHG emissions and polar bear population levels, and discusses the impact of this finding on their endangered species status in the United States.Read More →

Evaluation of historical and future thermal conditions for almond trees in north-eastern Portugal

Published:June 2023

Author(s):Teresa Freitas, João Santos, Ana Silva, André Fonseca and Helder Fraga

Publisher:Climatic Change

This peer-reviewed study uses climate modeling of moderate and high-warming scenarios to assess how climate change will threaten the growing conditions of almond trees in the Trás-os-Montes agrarian region of Portugal.Read More →

Ungulate-vehicle crashes peak a month earlier than 38 years ago due to global warming

Published:June 2023

Author(s):Michal Bíl, Richard Andrášik, Tomás Kušta, and Tomás Bartonička

Publisher:Climatic Change

This peer-reviewed study uses car crash and temperature data to find that the annual spring peak in wildlife-vehicle crashes has shifted earlier by a month over the past several decades due to warmer temperatures, indicating ecosystem impacts.Read More →

Human pressures modulate climate-warming induced changes in size spectra of stream fish communities

Published:June 2023

Author(s):Ignasi Arranz, Gaël Grenuillet, and Julien Cucherousset

Publisher:Nature ecology & evolution

This peer-reviewed study uses data from stream fish communities in France over 20 years to quantify the changes in fish size due to climate warming.Read More →

Abrupt expansion of climate change risks for species globally

Published:May 2023

Author(s):Alex Pigot, Cory Merow, Adam Wilson, and Christopher Trisos

Publisher:Nature Ecology and Evolution

This peer-reviewed study uses geographical data for approximately 36,000 marine and terrestrial species and climate projections to 2100 to show rapid risks of species exposure to dangerously high temperatures.Read More →

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