Novel communities from climate change

Novel communities from climate change.

Climate change is generating novel communities composed of new combinations of species. These result from different degrees of species adaptations to changing biotic and abiotic conditions, and from differential range shifts of species. To determine whether the responses of organisms are determined by particular species traits and how species interactions and community dynamics are likely to be...

Global change and marine communities: alien species and climate change.

Anthropogenic influences on the biosphere since the advent of the industrial age are increasingly causing global changes. Climatic change and the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are ranking high in scientific and public agendas, and other components of global change are also frequently addressed, among which are the introductions of non indigenous species (NIS) in bio...

Climate change. Accelerating extinction risk from climate change.

Current predictions of extinction risks from climate change vary widely depending on the specific assumptions and geographic and taxonomic focus of each study. I synthesized published studies in order to estimate a global mean extinction rate and determine which factors contribute the greatest uncertainty to climate change-induced extinction risks. Results suggest that extinction risks will acc...

Climate change and Great Barrier Reef: industries and communities

Climate Change and Sustainable Living in Remote Communities

Climate warming in the Circumpolar World inflicts the greatest impact on the potential for sustainable living in remote northern communities. Attaining sustainable living is a process of reducing dependencies on outside influence for the supply of goods and services in all aspects of community life, and requires entrepreneurial action at the community level. The author builds on two prior publi...