Climate Change Education and the Ecological Footprint

An ecological 'footprint' of climate change.

Recently, there has been increasing evidence of species' range shifts due to changes in climate. Whereas most of these shifts relate ground truth biogeographic data to a general warming trend in regional or global climate data, we here present a reanalysis of both biogeographic and bioclimatic data of equal spatio-temporal resolution, covering a time span of more than 50 years. Our results reve...

The Ecological Footprint of Higher Education

Exporting the ecological effects of climate change

global anthropogenic climate change is contributing to the considerable economic imbalance between rich and poor nations. the changing climate will inevitably influence natural resources, but it is the poorest countries—where humans rely most directly on natural systems for their liveli­ hoods—that are expected to experience the greatest changes. Accordingly, the resources, economies and societ...

Ecological Restoration and Global Climate Change

There is an increasing consensus that global climate change occurs and that potential changes in climate are likely to have important regional consequences for biota and ecosystems. Ecological restoration, including (re)afforestation and rehabilitation of degraded land, is included in the array of potential human responses to climate change. However, the implications of climate change for the b...

Mesocosms Reveal Ecological Surprises from Climate Change

Understanding, predicting, and mitigating the impacts of climate change on biodiversity poses one of the most crucial challenges this century. Currently, we know more about how future climates are likely to shift across the globe than about how species will respond to these changes. Two recent studies show how mesocosm experiments can hasten understanding of the ecological consequences of clima...