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1 Citations
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Impacts of Climate Change on Forest Biodiversity Changes in Northeast China

  • Xiguang Yang,
  • Yingqiu Mu,
  • Li Yang,
  • Ying Yu and
  • Zechuan Wu

31 October 2024

Vegetation plays a vital role in connecting ecosystems and climate features. The biodiversity of vegetation is one of the most important features for evaluating ecosystems and it is becoming increasingly important with the threat of global warming. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
17,581 Views
15 Pages

18 May 2012

Governance of marine biodiversity has long suffered from lack of adequate information about the ocean’s many species and ecosystems. Nevertheless, even as we are learning much more about the ocean’s biodiversity and the impacts to it from stressors s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,588 Views
24 Pages

5 March 2025

At COP16 in Cali, Colombia, significant progress was made in biodiversity conservation efforts. In this regard, financing has been considered a key issue for achieving the objectives. The overview of Mexico’s experience with biodiversity financ...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
69 Citations
24,315 Views
10 Pages

7 March 2013

Climate change has created potential major threats to global biodiversity. The multiple components of climate change are projected to affect all pillars of biodiversity, from genes over species to biome level. Of particular concerns are “tipping poin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,059 Views
21 Pages

26 May 2025

The ongoing biodiversity crisis, driven by human activities, threatens ecosystems and public health. Understanding how different demographic groups perceive biodiversity change is key to effective conservation strategies. We conducted a cross-section...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
11,794 Views
25 Pages

7 November 2024

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides regular scientific assessments on climate change, its implications, and potential future risks based on estimated energy matrixes and policy pathways. The aim of this publication is to ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
18,532 Views
25 Pages

The CC-Bio Project: Studying the Effects of Climate Change on Quebec Biodiversity

  • Dominique Berteaux,
  • Sylvie de Blois,
  • Jean-François Angers,
  • Joël Bonin,
  • Nicolas Casajus,
  • Marcel Darveau,
  • François Fournier,
  • Murray M. Humphries,
  • Brian McGill and
  • Jacques Larivée
  • + 9 authors

19 November 2010

Anticipating the effects of climate change on biodiversity is now critical for managing wild species and ecosystems. Climate change is a global driver and thus affects biodiversity globally. However, land-use planners and natural resource managers ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,312 Views
24 Pages

19 August 2024

This study focused on understanding biodiversity variability in response to climate change as an environmental stressor from a carbon cycle perspective. As the frequency and magnitude of environmental stresses are expected to increase due to rising c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,711 Views
20 Pages

30 October 2018

To cope with biodiversity and climate change challenges, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) needs to emphasize knowledge that considers multiple perspectives. Optimizing teacher education requires knowledge about the prerequisites of student...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,979 Views
22 Pages

Biodiversity Indicators Show Climate Change Will Alter Vegetation in Parks and Protected Areas

  • Keith R. Holmes,
  • Trisalyn A. Nelson,
  • Nicholas C. Coops and
  • Michael A. Wulder

16 May 2013

While multifaceted, a chief aim when designating parks and protected areas is to support the preservation of biological diversity, in part, through representing and conserving the full range of landscape conditions observed throughout a representati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,012 Views
19 Pages

22 September 2021

Climate change is having a significant impact on the global ecosystem and is likely to become increasingly important as this phenomenon intensifies. Numerous studies in climate change impacts on biodiversity, ecosystems, and ecosystem services in Chi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
22,516 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity in Nepal: Current Knowledge, Lacunae, and Opportunities

  • Aishwarya Bhattacharjee,
  • José D. Anadón,
  • David J. Lohman,
  • Tenzing Doleck,
  • Tarendra Lakhankar,
  • Bharat Babu Shrestha,
  • Praseed Thapa,
  • Durga Devkota,
  • Sundar Tiwari and
  • Ajay Jha
  • + 4 authors

11 October 2017

Nepal has an extreme altitudinal range from 60–8850 m with heterogeneous topography and distinct climatic zones. The country is considered a biodiversity hotspot, with nearly a quarter of the land area located in protected areas. Nepal and the surrou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,818 Views
15 Pages

7 February 2024

Climate change and biodiversity loss are two major threats to the world. Ecosystem conservation is an important issue for humanity, and international intergovernmental science-policy platforms highlight the mutually beneficial relationships among bio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,988 Views
17 Pages

Evaluating Biodiversity Metric Response to Forecasted Land Use Change in the Northern Rio Grande Basin

  • Elizabeth A. Samson,
  • Kenneth G. Boykin,
  • William G. Kepner,
  • Mark C. Andersen and
  • Alexander Fernald

The effects of future land use change on arid and semi-arid watersheds in the American Southwest have important management implications. Seamless, national-scale land-use-change scenarios for developed land were acquired from the US Environmental Pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
11,661 Views
22 Pages

26 January 2019

The rate of deforestation declined steadily in Thailand since the year 2000 due to economic transformation away from forestry. However, these changes did not occur in Nan Province located in northern Thailand. Deforestation is expected to continue du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,813 Views
18 Pages

14 February 2025

This article centers the experiences and voices of eight Kenyan youth climate change activists by highlighting how they navigate local and global challenges while engaging in climate change action. Specifically, this article examines how the activist...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,968 Views
34 Pages

26 August 2025

Biodiversity conservation has been identified as an important climate change mitigation tool. Healthy ecosystems act as natural carbon sinks while also strengthening resilience, making them essential for climate change adaptation. Climate change effe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
12,963 Views
28 Pages

Using the Conservation Standards Framework to Address the Effects of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

  • Marcia B. Brown,
  • John C. Morrison,
  • Terri T. Schulz,
  • Molly S. Cross,
  • Nicole Püschel-Hoeneisen,
  • Varsha Suresh and
  • Antonieta Eguren

22 January 2022

Climate change has challenged biodiversity conservation practitioners and planners. In this paper, we provide scalable guidance on integrating climate change into conservation planning and adaptive management that results in the most appropriate cons...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,628 Views
13 Pages

6 August 2022

Models show that climate change is likely to push agricultural production in the US region known as the Corn Belt northward in coming decades. The economic and social impacts of this northward shift have received extensive attention, but its environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,110 Views
14 Pages

Mapping Land-Use/Land-Cover Change in a Critical Biodiversity Area of South Africa

  • Khangwelo Desmond Musetsho,
  • Munyaradzi Chitakira and
  • Willem Nel

Land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes have implications for the long-term outlook of environmental processes, especially in the face of factors such as climate change. These changes can have serious consequences for humans. In this study, remote sensing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,246 Views
15 Pages

31 October 2018

When developing new indicators for policy advice, two different approaches exist and may be combined with each other. First, a data-driven, bottom-up approach determines indicators primarily by the availability of suitable data. Second, indicators ca...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,536 Views
10 Pages

The Apartadó River Master Plan seeks to intervene 135 hectares and 4.5 miles along the river. The area is marked by the presence of indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities and is deemed a biodiversity hotspot. Severe flash flooding events oc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,731 Views
21 Pages

Getting (ECO)Ready: Does EU Legislation Integrate Up-to-Date Scientific Data for Food Security and Biodiversity Preservation Under Climate Change?

  • Luciana Di Gregorio,
  • Lorenzo Nolfi,
  • Arianna Latini,
  • Nikolaos Nikoloudakis,
  • Nils Bunnefeld,
  • Maurizio Notarfonso,
  • Roberta Bernini,
  • Ioannis Manikas and
  • Annamaria Bevivino

7 December 2024

European policies on climate change (CC), food security (FS), and biodiversity (BD) represent the EU’s commitment to a sustainable agri-food system, highlighting the interdependence between environmental health and food security. By analyzing k...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,120 Views
18 Pages

Benthic Biodiversity, Carbon Storage and the Potential for Increasing Negative Feedbacks on Climate Change in Shallow Waters of the Antarctic Peninsula

  • Simon A. Morley,
  • Terri A. Souster,
  • Belinda J. Vause,
  • Laura Gerrish,
  • Lloyd S. Peck and
  • David K. A. Barnes

17 February 2022

The importance of cold-water blue carbon as biological carbon pumps that sequester carbon into ocean sediments is now being realised. Most polar blue carbon research to date has focussed on deep water, yet the highest productivity is in the shallows....

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,163 Views
27 Pages

4 September 2025

Freshwater ecosystems are a significant entity that govern the livelihood of people and are an important source of food, employment, and recreation. However, climate change is impacting freshwater ecosystems by altering their natural habitats. The pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,939 Views
22 Pages

Insights on Water and Climate Change in the Greater Horn of Africa: Connecting Virtual Water and Water-Energy-Food-Biodiversity-Health Nexus

  • Hubert Hirwa,
  • Qiuying Zhang,
  • Yunfeng Qiao,
  • Yu Peng,
  • Peifang Leng,
  • Chao Tian,
  • Sayidjakhon Khasanov,
  • Fadong Li,
  • Alphonse Kayiranga and
  • Fabien Muhirwa
  • + 3 authors

7 June 2021

Water is the key limiting factor in socioeconomic and ecological development, but it is adversely affected by climate change. The novel virtual water (VW) concept and water, energy, food, biodiversity, and human health (WEFBH) nexus approach are powe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
114 Citations
15,319 Views
14 Pages

Modeling Land Use and Land Cover Changes and Their Effects on Biodiversity in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

  • Roshan Sharma,
  • Udo Nehren,
  • Syed Ajijur Rahman,
  • Maximilian Meyer,
  • Bhagawat Rimal,
  • Gilang Aria Seta and
  • Himlal Baral

1 May 2018

Land use and land cover (LULC) change causes biodiversity decline through loss, alteration, and fragmentation of habitats. There are uncertainties on how LULC will change in the future and the effect of such change on biodiversity. In this paper we a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
385 Views
21 Pages

19 October 2025

Habitat condition and availability are fundamental for sustaining biodiversity and the ecosystem services that support human well-being. Achieving biodiversity-related sustainability goals, therefore, necessitates a focus on habitat itself. This stud...

  • Review
  • Open Access
67 Citations
12,038 Views
15 Pages

2 February 2018

There is increasing evidence that the impact of climate change on the productivity of grasslands will at least partly depend on their biodiversity. A high level of biodiversity may confer stability to grassland ecosystems against environmental change...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
764 Views
16 Pages

13 February 2025

Species respond to environmental changes at different rates, resulting in no change, increased, or decreased resemblance among species assemblages. We explored the patterns of rate of change in bird diversity in five ecoregions of the United States a...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,879 Views
19 Pages

Perspectives on Drivers of Biodiversity and Environmental Changes in the Keta Lagoon Ramsar Site of Ghana

  • Precious Agbeko Dzorgbe Mattah,
  • Margaret Fafa Awushie Akwetey,
  • Sika Abrokwah,
  • Prince Prah,
  • Domarine Kwaboah Tuffour,
  • Denis Worlanyo Aheto and
  • Suneetha Subramanian

12 January 2024

There is a general decline in biodiversity and the environment of coastal wetlands worldwide. Reasons for the decline obviously include overexploitation of wetland resources, climate change and industrialization, to mention but a few. This study used...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,529 Views
22 Pages

The Impact of Climate and Land Use Change on Greek Centipede Biodiversity and Conservation

  • Elisavet Georgopoulou,
  • Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis and
  • Stylianos M. Simaiakis

20 August 2025

Centipedes (Chilopoda, Myriapoda) are crucial soil predators, yet their vulnerability to climate and land use change remains unexplored. We assess the impact of these drivers on Greek centipedes, identify current and future biodiversity hotspots, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
9,704 Views
20 Pages

5 August 2018

Efficient forward-looking mitigation measures are needed to halt the global biodiversity decline. These require spatially explicit scenarios of expected changes in multiple indicators of biodiversity under future socio-economic and environmental cond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,168 Views
13 Pages

The impacts that climate change and land-use dynamics have on biodiversity are already visible in the distribution and behaviour of a large number of species. By using a Bayesian framework, including land-use, meteorological, topography and other var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,725 Views
21 Pages

9 July 2020

Recently, there has been increasing evidence of the emergence of systemic strains that threaten international cooperative efforts on global issues, especially climate change, biodiversity loss and security. Non-state actors have responded by declarin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,395 Views
17 Pages

21 September 2022

The impacts of climate change put pressure onto environmental and natural resources, which in turn increases the vulnerability of ecosystems and human communities. This makes social participation essential for biodiversity conservation. This article...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,215 Views
17 Pages

18 May 2023

Climate change is expected to impact both the population structure and geographic distribution of plants. Species distribution models are widely used to assess range shifts and the vulnerability of plants to climate change. Despite the abundance of m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,881 Views
15 Pages

Effects of Land-Use Change on Soil Functionality and Biodiversity: Toward Sustainable Planning of New Vineyards

  • Elena Gagnarli,
  • Giuseppe Valboa,
  • Nadia Vignozzi,
  • Donatella Goggioli,
  • Silvia Guidi,
  • Franca Tarchi,
  • Lorenzo Corino and
  • Sauro Simoni

1 April 2021

Sustainable agriculture largely depends on soil biodiversity and requires efficient methods to assess the effectiveness of agronomic planning. Knowledge of the landscape and relative pedosite is enriched by data on the soil microarthropod community,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,878 Views
12 Pages

2 April 2023

Climate change poses major threats to biodiversity and ecosystems. National policies on environmental issues address the problems created by these threats and set targets for their mitigation. In Greece, the National Biodiversity Strategy and the Nat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,063 Views
13 Pages

14 October 2024

Recent literature highlights the crucial role of deadwood in forests, emphasizing its contribution to biodiversity conservation, soil fertility, climate change mitigation, and bioenergy production. However, managing deadwood presents challenges as de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,217 Views
16 Pages

Association of Religious End Time Beliefs with Attitudes toward Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss

  • Benjamin S. Lowe,
  • Susan K. Jacobson,
  • Glenn D. Israel and
  • Anna L. Peterson

4 June 2023

Mobilizing communities for environmental sustainability often involves engaging with religious values and beliefs, which can exert powerful influences on the attitudes, norms, and behaviors of the majority of people worldwide. Christianity is the lar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,474 Views
16 Pages

Predicting the Global Distribution of Gryllus bimaculatus Under Climate Change: Implications for Biodiversity and Animal Feed Production

  • Sanad H. Ragab,
  • Shatha I. Alqurashi,
  • Mohammad M. Aljameeli,
  • Michael G. Tyshenko,
  • Ahmed H. Abdelwahab and
  • Tharwat A. Selim

24 November 2024

The potential range and distribution of insects are greatly impacted by climate change. This study evaluates the potential global shifts in the range of Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) under several climate change scenarios. The Global Bi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,328 Views
15 Pages

It is broadly accepted that continued global warming will pose a major threat to biodiversity in the 21st century. But how reliable are current projections regarding consequences of future climate change for biodiversity? To address this issue, we re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,270 Views
13 Pages

Dam Construction Impacts Fish Biodiversity in a Subtropical River Network, China

  • Xiongjun Liu,
  • Julian D. Olden,
  • Ruiwen Wu,
  • Shan Ouyang and
  • Xiaoping Wu

13 June 2022

Dams and diversions are a primary threat to freshwater fish biodiversity, including the loss of species and restructuring of communities, often resulting in taxonomic homogenization (increased similarity) over time. Mitigating these impacts requires...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,560 Views
24 Pages

Distribution of Biodiversity of Wild Beet Species (Genus Beta L.) in Armenia under Ongoing Climate Change Conditions

  • Anna Avetisyan,
  • Tatevik Aloyan,
  • Amalya Iskandaryan,
  • Margarita Harutyunyan,
  • Laura Jaakola and
  • Andreas Melikyan

24 September 2022

The reported annual temperature increase and significant precipitation drop in Armenia impact the country’s ecosystems and biodiversity. The present study surveyed the geographical distribution of the local wild beet species under the ongoing c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,762 Views
26 Pages

Combining Tree Species Composition and Understory Coverage Indicators with Optimization Techniques to Address Concerns with Landscape-Level Biodiversity

  • Brigite Botequim,
  • Miguel N. Bugalho,
  • Ana Raquel Rodrigues,
  • Susete Marques,
  • Marco Marto and
  • José G. Borges

28 January 2021

Sustainable forest management needs to address biodiversity conservation concerns. For that purpose, forest managers need models and indicators that may help evaluate the impact of management options on biodiversity under the uncertainty of climate c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,330 Views
26 Pages

1 September 2024

Against a backdrop of rapid environmental degradation and increasing pressures on natural resources, a broad list of innovations has emerged to support the vision of the post-2020 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and strengthen regional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,127 Views
25 Pages

Combining Spatial–Temporal Remote Sensing and Human Footprint Indices to Identify Biodiversity Conservation Hotspots

  • Yuting Lu,
  • Hong Wang,
  • Yao Zhang,
  • Jiahao Liu,
  • Tengfei Qu,
  • Xili Zhao,
  • Haozhe Tian,
  • Jingru Su,
  • Dingsheng Luo and
  • Yalei Yang

7 October 2023

Considering Inner Mongolia as the study area, the ecological theory of climate change, and human activities affecting a wide range of biodiversity patterns, MODIS multi-timeseries remote sensing image data were used and the interannual variation inde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,026 Views
25 Pages

22 May 2015

Loss of biodiversity is one of the most severe threats to sustainability, and land use and land use changes are still the single most important factor. Still, there is no sign of any consensus on how to include impacts on biodiversity from land use a...

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