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Species Impacts

Impacts on specific species. Note that articles in this category may also be classified under "ecosystem impacts" if they contain a broader discussion of impacts on a particular ecosystem.

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Evidence for massive and recurrent toxic blooms of Alexandrium catenella in the Alaskan Arctic

October 2021
Donald M. Anderson, Evangeline Fachon, Robert S. Pickart, Peigen Lin, Alexis D. Fischer, Mindy L. Richlen, Victoria Uva, Michael L. Brosnahan, Leah McRaven, Frank Bahr, Kathi Lefebvre, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Seth L. Danielson, Yihua Lyu, and Yuri Fukai
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
This study explores how warming can facilitate range expansions of harmful algal bloom species into waters where temperatures were formerly unfavorable.Read More →

Emergent biogeochemical risks from Arctic permafrost degradation

September 2021
Kimberley R. Miner , Juliana D’Andrilli , Rachel Mackelprang , Arwyn Edwards, Michael J. Malaska , Mark P. Waldrop , and Charles E. Miller 
Nature Climate Change
This review article identifies potential hazards currently frozen in Arctic permafrost.Read More →

Widespread phytoplankton blooms triggered by 2019–2020 Australian wildfires

September 2021
Weiyi Tang, Joan Llort, Jakob Weis, Morgane M. G. Perron, Sara Basart, Zuchuan Li, Shubha Sathyendranath, Thomas Jackson, Estrella Sanz Rodriguez, Bernadette C. Proemse, Andrew R. Bowie, Christina Schallenberg, Peter G. Strutton, Richard Matear, & Nicolas Cassar
Nature
This study connects climate-change-drive wildfires in Australia with anomalously widespread phytoplankton blooms in the Southern Ocean.Read More →

Sea ice reduction drives genetic differentiation among Barents Sea polar bears

September 2021
Simo Njabulo Maduna, Jon Aars, Ida Fløystad, Cornelya F. C. Klütsch, Eve M. L. Zeyl Fiskebeck, Øystein Wiig, Dorothee Ehrich, Magnus Andersen, Lutz Bachmann, Andrew E. Derocher, Tommi Nyman, Hans Geir Eiken, and Snorre B. Hagen
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
This study assesses the climate-induced loss of genetic diversity among Barents Sea polar bears.Read More →

Northern shrimp Pandalus borealis population collapse linked to climate-driven shifts in predator distribution

July 2021
R. Anne Richards and Margaret Hunter
PLOS One
This study links climate-driven shifts in longfin squid to the collapse of the northern shrimp population in the Gulf of Maine.Read More →

Sex-specific ornament evolution is a consistent feature of climatic adaptation across space and time in dragonflies

July 2021
Michael P. Moore, Kaitlyn Hersch, Chanont Sricharoen, Sarah Lee, Caitlin Reice, Paul Rice, Sophie Kronick, Kim A. Medley, and Kasey D. Fowler-Finn.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Dragonflies consistently adapt to warmer climates across space and time by evolving less male melanin ornamentation—a mating-related trait that also absorbs solar radiation and heats individuals above ambient temperatures.Read More →

The impacts of changing climate and streamflow on nutrient speciation in a large Prairie reservoir

June 2021
E. Akomeah, L.A. Morales-Marın, M. Carr, A. Sadeghian, K.E. Lindenschmidt
Elsevier
In this study, the impact of climate change on nutrient speciation in Lake Diefenbaker is examined using loosely linked SpAtially Referenced Regression On Watershed attributes (SPARROW) and CE-QUAL-W2 models. Read More →

Cloudiness reduces the bleaching response of coral reefs exposed to heat stress

May 2021
Pedro C. Gonzalez‐Espinosa, Simon D. Donner
Wiley
This study analyzes the impacts of temperature and cloudiness on coral bleaching. Read More →

Physiological Alteration in Sunflower Plants (Helianthus annuus L.) Exposed to High CO2 and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

May 2021
D. E. Benhadji Serradj, A. B. Sebitosi, S. O. Fadlallah
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Sunflower plants in a CO2-enriched atmosphere were used herein to examine the developmental and physiological effects of biofertilization with mycorrhizae.Read More →

Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects

February 2021
James S. Clark, Robert Andrus, Melaine Aubry-Kientz, Yves Bergeron, Michal Bogdziewicz, Don C. Bragg, Dale Brockway, Natalie L. Cleavitt, Susan Cohen, Benoit Courbaud, Robert Daley, Adrian J. Das, Michael Dietze, Timothy J. Fahey, Istem Fer, Jerry F. Franklin, Catherine A. Gehring, Gregory S. Gilbert, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Qinfeng Guo, Janneke HilleRisLambers, Ines Ibanez, Jill Johnstone, Christopher L. Kilner, Johannes Knops, Walter D. Koenig, Georges Kunstler, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Kristin L. Legg, Jordan Luongo, James A. Lutz, Diana Macias, Eliot J. B. McIntire, Yassine Messaoud, Christopher M. Moore, Emily Moran, Jonathan A. Myers, Orrin B. Myers, Chase Nunez, Robert Parmenter, Sam Pearse, Scott Pearson, Renata Poulton-Kamakura, Ethan Ready, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Kyle C. Rodman, C. Lane Scher, William H. Schlesinger, Amanda M. Schwantes, Erin Shanahan, Shubhi Sharma, Michael A. Steele, Nathan L. Stephenson, Samantha Sutton, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Thomas T. Veblen, Amy V. Whipple, Thomas G. Whitham, Andreas P. Wion, Kai Zhu & Roman Zlotin.
Nature Communications
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 →

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