BioDeepTime: A database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages DOI Creative Commons
Jansen A. Smith, Marina C. Rillo, Ádám T. Kocsis

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Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 32(10), P. 1680 - 1689

Published: July 25, 2023

Abstract Motivation We have little understanding of how communities respond to varying magnitudes and rates environmental perturbations across temporal scales. BioDeepTime harmonizes assemblage time series presence abundance data help facilitate investigations community dynamics timescales the response natural anthropogenic stressors. includes terrestrial aquatic assemblages spatial grain extent from present‐day millions years ago. Main Types Variables Included currently contains 7,437,847 taxon records 10,062 series, each with a minimum 10 steps. Age constraints, sampling method, environment taxonomic scope are provided for series. Spatial Location Grain The database 8752 unique locations freshwater, marine ecosystems. represented by individual samples varies quadrats on order several cm 2 grid cells ~100 km . Time Period in aggregate spans last 451 million years, modern fossil ranging years. median is 18.7 54,872 Temporal grain, encompassed samples, ranges days tens thousands Major Taxa Level Measurement information 28,777 taxa 4,769,789 at species level another 271,218 known genus level, including benthic planktonic foraminifera, coccolithophores, diatoms, ostracods, plants (pollen), radiolarians other invertebrates vertebrates. There date 7012 3050 BioDeepTime. Software Format SQLite, Comma‐separated values.

Language: Английский

Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon DOI
James S. Albert, Ana Carolina Carnaval, Suzette G. A. Flantua

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Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 379(6630)

Published: Jan. 26, 2023

Amazonian environments are being degraded by modern industrial and agricultural activities at a pace far above anything previously known, imperiling its vast biodiversity reserves globally important ecosystem services. The most substantial threats come from regional deforestation, because of export market demands, global climate change. Amazon is currently perched to transition rapidly largely forested nonforested landscape. These changes happening much too for species, peoples, ecosystems respond adaptively. Policies prevent the worst outcomes known must be enacted immediately. We now need political will leadership act on this information. To fail biosphere, we our peril.

Language: Английский

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Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead DOI Open Access
María Dornelas, Jonathan M. Chase, Nicholas J. Gotelli

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 378(1881)

Published: May 29, 2023

Estimating biodiversity change across the planet in context of widespread human modification is a critical challenge. Here, we review how has changed recent decades scales and taxonomic groups, focusing on four diversity metrics: species richness, temporal turnover, spatial beta-diversity abundance. At local scales, all metrics includes many examples both increases declines tends to be centred around zero, but with higher prevalence declining trends (increasing similarity composition space or biotic homogenization) The exception this pattern changes through time observed most assemblages. Less known about at regional although several studies suggest that richness are more prevalent than declines. Change global scale hardest estimate accurately, extinction rates probably outpacing speciation rates, elevated. Recognizing variability essential accurately portray unfolding, highlights much remains unknown magnitude direction multiple different scales. Reducing these blind spots allow appropriate management actions deployed. This article part theme issue ‘Detecting attributing causes change: needs, gaps solutions’.

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Quantifying climate variability and regional anthropogenic influence on vegetation dynamics in northwest India DOI Creative Commons
Abhishek Banerjee, Shichang Kang, Michael E. Meadows

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Environmental Research, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 234, P. 116541 - 116541

Published: July 5, 2023

Language: Английский

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Assessing changes in global fire regimes DOI Creative Commons
Sayedeh Sara Sayedi, Benjamin W. Abbott, Boris Vannière

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Fire Ecology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 20(1)

Published: Feb. 8, 2024

Abstract Background The global human footprint has fundamentally altered wildfire regimes, creating serious consequences for health, biodiversity, and climate. However, it remains difficult to project how long-term interactions among land use, management, climate change will affect fire behavior, representing a key knowledge gap sustainable management. We used expert assessment combine opinions about past future regimes from 99 researchers. asked quantitative qualitative assessments of the frequency, type, implications regime beginning Holocene through year 2300. Results Respondents indicated some direct influence on since at least ~ 12,000 years BP, though natural variability remained dominant driver until around 5,000 most study regions. Responses suggested ten-fold increase in frequency during last 250 compared with rest Holocene, corresponding first intensification extensification use later anthropogenic change. Looking future, were predicted intensify, increases severity, size all biomes except grassland ecosystems. Fire showed different sensitivities across biomes, but likelihood increased higher warming scenarios biomes. Biodiversity, carbon storage, other ecosystem services decrease under emission scenarios. present recommendations adaptation mitigation emerging while recognizing that management options are constrained Conclusion humans over two centuries. perspective gained fires should be considered strategies, novel behavior is likely given unprecedented disruption plant communities, climate, factors. Future degrade services, unless aggressively mitigated. Expert complements empirical data modeling, providing broader science inform decision making research priorities.

Language: Английский

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Trophic rewilding as a restoration approach under emerging novel biosphere conditions DOI
Jens‐Christian Svenning, Robert Buitenwerf, Elizabeth le Roux

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Current Biology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 34(9), P. R435 - R451

Published: May 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Impacts of climate and land use change on terrestrial carbon storage: A multi-scenario case study in the Yellow River Basin (1992–2050) DOI
Haoyang Wang,

Lishu Wu,

Yongsheng Yue

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The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 930, P. 172557 - 172557

Published: April 20, 2024

Language: Английский

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Detection of long-term land use and ecosystem services dynamics in the Loess Hilly-Gully region based on artificial intelligence and multiple models DOI
Yansui Liu, Xinxin Huang, Yaqun Liu

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Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 447, P. 141560 - 141560

Published: Feb. 29, 2024

Language: Английский

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Exploring the impact of natural and human activities on vegetation changes: An integrated analysis framework based on trend analysis and machine learning DOI
Ying Chen, Qian Zhao, Yiming Liu

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Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 374, P. 124092 - 124092

Published: Jan. 17, 2025

Language: Английский

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Reservoir water quality deterioration due to deforestation emphasizes the indirect effects of global change DOI
Xiangzhen Kong, Salman Ghaffar, Maria Determann

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Water Research, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 221, P. 118721 - 118721

Published: June 7, 2022

Language: Английский

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Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2 DOI Creative Commons
Anne Dallmeyer, Martin Claußen, Stephan Lorenz

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Climate of the past, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 17(6), P. 2481 - 2513

Published: Dec. 2, 2021

Abstract. We present a transient simulation of global vegetation and climate patterns the mid- late Holocene using MPI-ESM (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Earth System Model) at T63 resolution. The simulated trend is discussed in context change. Our model captures main trends found reconstructions. Most prominent are southward retreat northern treeline that combined with strong decrease forest high latitudes during vast increase Saharan desert, embedded general precipitation Northern Hemisphere monsoon margin regions. Southern experiences weaker changes total cover last 8000 years. However, monsoon-related insolation-induced cooling winter lead to shifts composition, mainly between woody plant functional types (PFTs). large-scale almost linearly follow subtle, approximately linear, orbital forcing. In some regions, however, non-linear, more rapid simulation. most striking region Sahel–Sahara domain transitions rather desertic state, despite gradual insolation Rapid also occur latitudes, South Asia margins Hemisphere. These triggered by temperatures, which go into, or move out of, bioclimatic tolerance range individual PFTs. dynamics determined net primary production (NPP) competition on timescales centuries. More PFTs within few decades associated mortality thresholds implicit dynamic model, have be interpreted caution. outside modifications intensity summer affect circulation extra tropics via teleconnections. Based our simulations, we thus identify monsoons as key player

Language: Английский

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