Habitat availability explains variation in climate-driven range shifts across multiple taxonomic groups

CLIMATE CHANGE AND SPECIES RANGE SHIFTS Climate-driven change in plant–insect interactions along elevation gradients

Climate-driven change in plant–insect interactions along elevation gradients Sergio Rasmann*, Loïc Pellissier, Emmanuel Defossez, Herv e Jactel and Georges Kunstler Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, UNIL Sorge, Le Biophore CH, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland; Department of Bioscience,The Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus 4000, Denmark; Irstea, UR EMGR Ecosy...

Simulating the Interacting Effects of Intraspecific Variation, Disturbance, and Competition on Climate-Driven Range Shifts in Trees

Climate change is expected to favor shifts in plant distributions; some such shifts are already being observed along elevation gradients. However, the rate of such shifts may be limited by their ability to reach newly suitable areas and by competition from resident species. The degree of local adaptation and genetic variation may also play a role in the interaction between migrants and resident...

Climate-driven variation in food availability between the’core and range edge of the endangered northern bettong’(Bettongia tropica)

The endangered northern bettong (Bettongia tropica) occurs in four disjunct populations in far north Queensland, Australia, at a high density only in its range core (RC). A recent study suggested that B. tropica populations are sparse at the northern and southern range edges (SRE) due to more severe droughts and variable climatic conditions causing fluctuations in the availability of their prin...

Climate Change, Range Shifts and Multitrophic Interactions

Climate change represents one of the most serious threats to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. The current rate of temperature change, driven primarily by the human combus‐ tion of fossil fuels, far exceeds rates that have occurred in at least 10,000 years (lower Pleisto‐ cene) and perhaps much longer (IPCC, 2014). That last major climate change event precipitated a mass extinction that l...

Three-dimensional range shifts in biodiversity driven by recent climate warming