How does climate change cause extinction?
This study systematically reviewed the proximate causes of climate-change related extinctions and their empirical support. Read More →
Upward expansion of fire-adapted grasses along a warming tropical elevation gradient
This study study documents an upward expansion of fire‐adapted grasses at high elevations in the tropics as an important threat that seems to be compounded by warming trends.Read More →
Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change
This study uses a hybrid model to forecast the climate-driven spatio-temporal dynamics of 150 high-mountain plant species across the European Alps. Read More →
On a collision course: competition and dispersal differences create no-analogue communities and cause extinctions during climate change
This study develops a model of multiple competing species along a warming climatic gradient that includes temperature-dependent competition, differences in niche breadth and interspecific differences in dispersal ability.Read More →
Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming
Using a meta-analysis, this paper estimates that the distributions of species have recently shifted to higher elevations at a median rate of 11.0 meters per decade, and to higher latitudes at a median rate of 16.9 kilometers per decade.Read More →
Recent ecological responses to climate change support predictions of high extinction risk
This study performs a global and multitaxon metaanalysis to show that empirical evidence for the realized effects of climate change supports predictions of future extinction risk. Read More →
One-Third of Reef-Building Corals Face Elevated Extinction Risk from Climate Change and Local Impacts
This study´s results emphasize the widespread plight of coral reefs and the urgent need to enact conservation measures.Read More →
Climate Change, Elevational Range Shifts, and Bird Extinctions
Using elevational limits in a tested, standardized, and robust manner can improve conservation assessments of terrestrial species and will help identify species that are most vulnerable to global climate change. Read More →
Scenarios of freshwater fish extinctions from climate change and water withdrawal
This study combined two scenarios from the IPCC with a global hydrological model to build global scenarios of future losses in river discharge from climate change and increased water withdrawal.Read More →
A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems
This paper explores these differences, and applies diverse analyses to more than 1,700 species, and show that recent biological trends match climate change predictions. Read More →