Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity

• Published in: Ecology letters Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 365 - 377
• Main Authors: Bellard, Céline, Bertelsmeier, Cleo, Leadley, Paul, Thuiller, Wilfried, Courchamp, Franck
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2012; Blackwell; Wiley
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Biodiversity; Biodiversity loss; Biological and medical sciences; Climate Change; Climate effects; Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change; Conservation of Natural Resources; Earth, ocean, space; Ecology, environment; Ecosystem; ecosystems; Environmental impact; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; extinction; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Life Sciences; Mass extinctions; Meteorology; Models, Theoretical; phenology; physiology; Population Dynamics; Species extinction; species extinctions; Dynamical climatology; Climate change; Biodiversity; Species extinction; species extinctions; climate change

Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 365–377 Many studies in recent years have investigated the effects of climate change on the future of biodiversity. In this review, we first examine the different possible effects of climate change that can operate at individual, population, species, community, ecosystem a...