Chapter 2 Stomatal Responses to Climate Change

Chapter 9: Climate Change

English settlers to the New World believed that the climate of Newfoundland would be moderate, New England would be warm, and Virginia would be like southern Spain. They based these beliefs on the seemingly commonsense view that climate is much the same at any given latitude around the globe. What is striking is that these views persisted despite mounting evidence to the contrary. As late as 16...

Evolutionary responses to climate change.

DAVID K. SKELLY,∗†‡‡ LIANA N. JOSEPH,‡ HUGH P. POSSINGHAM,‡ L. KEALOHA FREIDENBURG,∗† THOMAS J. FARRUGIA,§ MICHAEL T. KINNISON,∗∗ AND ANDREW P. HENDRY§ ∗School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, U.S.A. †Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, U.S.A. ‡School of Integrative Biology, University of Queensland, St Lu...

Chapter 2 Climate

Divergence of species responses to climate change

Climate change can have profound impacts on biodiversity and the sustainability of many ecosystems. Various studies have investigated the impacts of climate change, but large-scale, trait-specific impacts are less understood. We analyze abundance data over time for 86 tree species/groups across the eastern United States spanning the last three decades. We show that more tree species have experi...

Understanding complex biogeographic responses to climate change

Predicting the extent and direction of species' range shifts is a major priority for scientists and resource managers. Seminal studies have fostered the notion that biological systems responding to climate change-impacted variables (e.g., temperature, precipitation) should exhibit poleward range shifts but shifts contrary to that expectation have been frequently reported. Understanding whether ...