Ecological implications of climate change will include surprises

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...

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Will Climate Change Spark More Wildfire Damages?

Climate change: who will take the heat

Climate change policies can regulate greenhouse gases (GHG) at a variety of points in the product cycle of fossil fuels: from fossil fuel suppliers based on the carbon content of extracted fossil resource to nal emitters at the point of energy generation. This paper develops a general equilibrium model with trade between fossil resource abundant countries and capital abundant countries to show ...

Noah’s Ark Conservation Will Not Preserve Threatened Ecological Communities under Climate Change

BACKGROUND Effective conservation of threatened ecological communities requires knowledge of where climatically suitable habitat is likely to persist into the future. We use the critically endangered Lowland Grassland community of Tasmania, Australia as a case study to identify options for management in cases where future climatic conditions become unsuitable for the current threatened communit...