scholarly journals Impacts of climate change on upland birds: complex interactions, compensatory mechanisms and the need for long-term data

Ibis ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 155 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Chamberlain ◽  
James Pearce-Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Compensatory Mechanisms ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Term Data ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Laying date of marsh tits Parus palustris in relation to climate change

Biologia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdravko Dolenec
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Laying Date ◽  
Bird Breeding ◽  
Spring Temperatures ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Marsh Tit ◽  
Term Data

AbstractIncreasing evidence suggests that climate change affects bird breeding phenology and other life-history traits of wildlife. This study is based on the mean spring temperatures (February, March, April) and laying dates of first eggs of the marsh tit Parus palustris. We collected data from 1984 to 2004 for the Mokrice area in NW Croatia. Correlation between laying date and mean spring temperatures was significant. The relationship between mean laying date (y) and air temperature (x) can be expressed as y = 44.69 − 2.08x. Results indicate that spring temperatures are a good predictor of timing of laying eggs. Such long-term data could than be used in order to assess the effects on biological systems if human activities influence climate.

scholarly journals Climate change contributes to widespread declines among bumble bees across continents

Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 367 (6478) ◽  
pp. 685-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Soroye ◽  
Tim Newbold ◽  
Jeremy Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Extinction Risk ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Bumble Bee ◽  
Species Extinction ◽  
Population Extinction ◽  
Colonization Dynamics ◽  
Term Data ◽  
Related Population

Climate change could increase species’ extinction risk as temperatures and precipitation begin to exceed species’ historically observed tolerances. Using long-term data for 66 bumble bee species across North America and Europe, we tested whether this mechanism altered likelihoods of bumble bee species’ extinction or colonization. Increasing frequency of hotter temperatures predicts species’ local extinction risk, chances of colonizing a new area, and changing species richness. Effects are independent of changing land uses. The method developed in this study permits spatially explicit predictions of climate change–related population extinction-colonization dynamics within species that explains observed patterns of geographical range loss and expansion across continents. Increasing frequencies of temperatures that exceed historically observed tolerances help explain widespread bumble bee species decline. This mechanism may also contribute to biodiversity loss more generally.

scholarly journals Long-term data from a small mammal community reveals loss of diversity and potential effects of local climate change

2016 ◽  
pp. zow109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Santoro ◽  
Cristina Sanchez-Suarez ◽  
Carlos Rouco ◽  
L. Javier Palomo ◽  
M. Carmen Fernández ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Small Mammal ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Small Mammal Community ◽  
Local Climate Change ◽  
Loss Of Diversity ◽  
Mammal Community ◽  
Term Data

scholarly journals Climate change and long-term data are the hot topics at Auckland conference on ‘Climate and Oceans’

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-80
Author(s):  
Mark J Costello ◽  
Mary Livingston ◽  
Colin McLay ◽  
Ann McCrone ◽  
Carolyn Lundquist
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Term Data

scholarly journals Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change

2021 ◽  
Vol 376 (1839) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Hacket-Pain ◽  
Michał Bogdziewicz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Seed Production ◽  
Mast Seeding ◽  
Ecosystem Impacts ◽  
Proximate Mechanisms ◽  
Proximate Factors ◽  
Global Vegetation ◽  
Term Response ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Climate change is reshaping global vegetation through its impacts on plant mortality, but recruitment creates the next generation of plants and will determine the structure and composition of future communities. Recruitment depends on mean seed production, but also on the interannual variability and among-plant synchrony in seed production, the phenomenon known as mast seeding. Thus, predicting the long-term response of global vegetation dynamics to climate change requires understanding the response of masting to changing climate. Recently, data and methods have become available allowing the first assessments of long-term changes in masting. Reviewing the literature, we evaluate evidence for a fingerprint of climate change on mast seeding and discuss the drivers and impacts of these changes. We divide our discussion into the main characteristics of mast seeding: interannual variation, synchrony, temporal autocorrelation and mast frequency. Data indicate that masting patterns are changing but the direction of that change varies, likely reflecting the diversity of proximate factors underlying masting across taxa. Experiments to understand the proximate mechanisms underlying masting, in combination with the analysis of long-term datasets, will enable us to understand this observed variability in the response of masting. This will allow us to predict future shifts in masting patterns, and consequently ecosystem impacts of climate change via its impacts on masting. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The ecology and evolution of synchronized seed production in plants’.

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