Brook & Fordham 2015 - F1000 Review.pdf (580.31 kB)
Hot topics in biodiversity and climate change research
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.
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Publication title
F1000ResearchVolume
4Issue
928Pagination
1-13ISSN
2046-1402Department/School
School of Natural SciencesPublisher
F1000 Research LtdPlace of publication
London, United KingdomRights statement
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/Repository Status
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