Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change

• Published in: Nature Vol. 453; no. 7193; pp. 353 - 357
• Main Authors: Rosenzweig, Cynthia, Karoly, David, Vicarelli, Marta, Neofotis, Peter, Wu, Qigang, Casassa, Gino, Menzel, Annette, Root, Terry L., Estrella, Nicole, Seguin, Bernard, Tryjanowski, Piotr, Liu, Chunzhen, Rawlins, Samuel, Imeson, Anton
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 15.05.2008; Nature Publishing; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Agriculture; Anthropogenic factors; Biology; Brackish; Cellular Biology; Climate change; Climatic changes; Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change; Continents; Databases, Factual; Developing countries; Earth, ocean, space; Ecosystem; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Forestry; Freshwater; Geography; Global temperature changes; Global temperatures; Greenhouse Effect; Greenhouse gases; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Human Activities; Humanities and Social Sciences; Ice; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Internationality; LDCs; Life Sciences; Marine; Marine Biology; Meteorology; Models, Statistical; multidisciplinary; Oceans; Rivers; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Studies; Temperature; United States; PS, Antarctica; North America; ANE, Europe; Change detection; Regional scope; climate warming; Spatial analysis; Man environment interface; biosphere; greenhouse gas; Dynamical climatology; hydrosphere; environment impact; Human activity; global change; Planetary scale; Observation data; Air pollution; Cryosphere; climate change; Anthropogenic factor; AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; NATURAL SYSTEMS; LAND USE; DATABASE; OCEAN; STATISTICAL METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSES; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; GLOBAL CHANGE; WARMING; FOREST SYSTEM

Significant changes in physical and biological systems are occurring on all continents and in most oceans, with a concentration of available data in Europe and North America. Most of these changes are in the direction expected with warming temperature. Here we show that these changes in natural syst...