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Vegetation Ecology of Debris-Covered Glaciers (DCGs)—Site Conditions, Vegetation Patterns and Implications for DCGs Serving as Quaternary Cold- and Warm-Stage Plant Refugia

Diversity, 2022
Scientific interest in debris-covered glaciers (DCGs) significantly increased during the last two decades, primarily from an abiotic perspective, but also regarding their distinctive ecology.
Thomas Fickert, Donald Friend, Bruce Molnia, Friederike Grüninger, Michael Richter   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hydrologic refugia, plants, and climate change

Global Change Biology, 2017
AbstractClimate, physical landscapes, and biota interact to generate heterogeneous hydrologic conditions in space and over time, which are reflected in spatial patterns of species distributions. As these species distributions respond to rapid climate change, microrefugia may support local species persistence in the face of deteriorating climatic ...
Blair C. McLaughlin, David D. Ackerly, P. Zion Klos, Jennifer Natali, Todd E. Dawson, Sally E. Thompson   +5 more
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Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey, Geoffrey J. Cary, Teigan Cremona, Hugh F. Davies, Brett P. Murphy, Sam C. Banks   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pinna nobilis, the Vanishing Giant: A Comprehensive Review on the Decline of a Mediterranean Icon

Animals
This review addresses the critical conservation challenges faced by Pinna nobilis, the noble pen shell, a keystone umbrella species in Mediterranean marine ecosystems.
Ilenia Azzena, Chiara Locci, Noemi Pascale, Ilaria Deplano, Riccardo Senigaglia, Fabio Scarpa, Marco Casu, Daria Sanna   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Topographic Complexity Facilitates Persistence Compared to Signals of Contraction and Expansion in the Adjacent Subdued Landscape

Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022
Topographically heterogeneous areas are likely to act as refugia for species because they facilitate survival during regional climatic stress due to availability of a range of microenvironments.
Margaret Byrne, Cristina E. Ramalho, Sarah Tapper, David J. Coates   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Deep refuges: the distribution of marine fish in warming subtropics

Ecography, EarlyView.
In light of global climate change, identifying critical marine habitats and conserving them is essential. Marine conservation planning recommends designating cooler habitats as marine protected areas. The ‘deep‐reef refugia' hypothesis suggests that deeper, suitable habitats may allow species to undergo the evolutionary changes necessary to adapt to ...
Anat Tsemel, Stephane Martinez, Shai Einbinder, Hagai Nativ, Avery Deveto, Ole J. Sorensen, Ido Izhaki, Dan Tchernov   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Depth‐structured sponge assemblages offer limited evidence for mesophotic refuge potential under the deep reef refuge hypothesis

Ecography, EarlyView.
Temperate mesophotic ecosystems (TMEs) have the potential to act as climate refugia for shallower benthic species impacted by environmental change. However, the extent to which mesophotic ecosystems might provide an ecological refuge, particularly for key functional groups like sponges, remains poorly known in temperate systems.
Manon Broadribb, Alice Rogers, James J. Bell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seaweed farms provide refugia from ocean acidification

Science of The Total Environment, 2021
Seaweed farming has been proposed as a strategy for adaptation to ocean acidification, but evidence is largely lacking. Changes of pH and carbon system parameters in surface waters of three seaweed farms along a latitudinal range in China were compared, on the weeks preceding harvesting, with those of the surrounding seawaters.
Xi Xiao, Susana Agustí, Yan Yu, Yuzhou Huang, Weizhou Chen, Jing Hu, Chao Li, Ke Li, Fangyi Wei, Yitian Lu, Caicai Xu, Zepan Chen, Shengping Liu, Jiangning Zeng, Jiaping Wu, Carlos M. Duarte   +15 more
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Physiology–microhabitat matching may help organisms cope with the thermal and hydric challenges under climate change: a tale of two lizards

Ecography, EarlyView.
Climate change is significantly affecting biodiversity, and organisms that depend on external temperature – such as ectotherms – are particularly vulnerable to these effects. Microhabitats provide refuge for species, thereby reducing exposure to thermal and hydric stress under climate change.
Carolina Reyes‐ Puig, Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou, Neftalí Sillero, Urtzi Enriquez‐ Urzelai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Moss diatoms show regional structuring, high potential endemism, and an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient in the Arctic

Ecography, EarlyView.
Microorganisms perform essential functions in Arctic terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, their ecology and biogeography are poorly understood, despite being necessary to predict microbial responses to future climate change. Here, we provide the first large‐scale floristic and biogeographic study of the moss diatom flora in the tundra regions of the North ...
Charlotte Goeyers, Elie Verleyen, Bart Van de Vijver, Tyler J. Kohler, Petra Klímová, S. Robbert Gradstein, Koen Sabbe   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source