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Hot topics in biodiversity and climate change research
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Brook, BW and Fordham, DA, Hot topics in biodiversity and climate change research, F1000Research, 4, (928) pp. 1-13. ISSN 2046-1402 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2015 Brook BW and Fordham DA. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
DOI: doi:10.12688/f1000research.6508.1
Abstract
With scientific and societal interest in biodiversity impacts of climate change
growing enormously over the last decade, we analysed directions and biases in
the recent most highly cited data papers in this field of research (from 2012 to
2014). The majority of this work relied on leveraging large databases of already
collected historical information (but not paleo- or genetic data), and coupled
these to new methodologies for making forward projections of shifts in species’
geographical ranges, with a focus on temperate and montane plants. A
consistent finding was that the pace of climate-driven habitat change, along
with increased frequency of extreme events, is outpacing the capacity of
species or ecological communities to respond and adapt.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | climate change, biodiversity |
| Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
| Research Group: | Climate change impacts and adaptation |
| Research Field: | Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
| Objective Group: | Adaptation to climate change |
| Objective Field: | Ecosystem adaptation to climate change |
| UTAS Author: | Brook, BW (Professor Barry Brook) |
| ID Code: | 107158 |
| Year Published: | 2015 |
| Deposited By: | Plant Science |
| Deposited On: | 2016-03-07 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-04-26 |
| Downloads: | 162 View Download Statistics |
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