Global change refugia could shelter species from multiple threats
Mapping and counting global change factors Both pathways towards integrating global change factors with climate refugia require maps of global change variables at sufficiently high…
Category: Climate-change ecology
System-specific aquaculture annual growth rates can mitigate the trilemma of production, pollution and carbon dioxide emissions in China
The aquaculture sector faces a trilemma of simultaneously boosting production, decreasing nutrient discharges and reducing CO2 emissions…
Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate
Disturbances, such as hurricanes, fires, droughts and pest outbreaks, can cause major changes in ecosystem conditions that threaten Nature’s cont…
High intensity perturbations induce an abrupt shift in soil microbial state
Soil microbial communities play a pivotal role in regulating ecosystem functioning. But they are increasingly being shaped by human-induced environ…
Rapid growth rate responses of terrestrial bacteria to field warming on the Antarctic Peninsula
Ice-free terrestrial environments of the western Antarctic Peninsula are expanding and subject to colonization by new microorganisms and plants, wh…