Better understanding the redistribution of living organisms in response to climate change

With the retreat of the cryosphere (ice, snow, permafrost) towards the poles and peaks as a result of rising global temperatures, living things are expected to follow suit. However, a research group, including a team from CRBE, has just published a synthesis in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, showing that only 59% of documented species migrations are in the direction expected by rising temperatures, compared with 35% in the opposite direction. The same research group also published a roadmap in the journal Global Change Biology, which aims to use the functional characteristics of species to better understand these variations.

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See also

Mechanisms, detection and impacts of species redistributions under climate change. Nature Reviews. Earth & Environment - Lawlor, J. A., Comte, L., Grenouillet, G., Lenoir, J., Baecher, J. A., Bandara, R., Bertrand, R., Chen, I., Diamond, S. E., Lancaster, L. T., Moore, N., Murienne, J., Oliveira, B. F., Pecl, G. T., Pinsky, M. L., Rolland, J., Rubenstein, M., Scheffers, B. R., Thompson, L. M., Sunday, J. , publié le 18 avril 2024. - https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00527-z

Bringing traits back into the equation : A roadmap to understand species redistribution. - Comte, L., Bertrand, R., Diamond, S., Lancaster, L. T., Pinsky, M. L., Scheffers, B. R., Baecher, J. A., Bandara, R. M. W. J., Chen, I., Lawlor, J. A., Moore, N. A., Oliveira, B. F., Murienne, J., Rolland, J., Rubenstein, M. A., Sunday, J., Thompson, L. M., Villalobos, F., Weiskopf, S. R., et Lenoir, J. - Global Change Biology, publié le 13 avril 2024. - https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17271