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Hypotheses from recent assessments of climate impacts to biodiversity and ecosystems in the United States

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Edited by: Walter Leal Filho, Jelena Barbir, and Richard Preziosi
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98681-4_22

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Abstract

Climate change poses multiple threats to biodiversity, and has already caused demonstrable impacts. We summarize key results from a recent national assessment of observed climate change impacts to terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems in the United States, and place results in the context of commonly articulated hypotheses about ecosystem response to climate change for global implications. Specific impacts we consider include: range shifts; phenological shifts; phenotypic changes; primary production changes; biological invasions; and novel communities. Significant effort has been made recently to incorporate adaptation measures into land and water management at both national and international scales, but the scale of impacts and associated uncertainties pose challenges to existing management institutions. Using commonly articulated hypotheses about climate change, biodiversity, and ecosystem response can provide context for informed decisions at multiple scales and can help to provide a clearer understanding of the ecological and mechanistic linkages between climate change and biodiversity.
Publication type Book chapter
Publication Subtype Book Chapter
Title Hypotheses from recent assessments of climate impacts to biodiversity and ecosystems in the United States
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-98681-4_22
Year Published 2019
Language English
Publisher Springer
Contributing office(s) National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, National Climate Adaptation Science Center
Description 21 p.
Larger Work Type Book
Larger Work Subtype Handbook
Larger Work Title Handbook of climate change and biodiversity
First page 355
Last page 375
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