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Beyond climate change attribution in conservation and ecological research

Overview of attention for article published in Ecology Letters, May 2013
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Title
Beyond climate change attribution in conservation and ecological research
Published in
Ecology Letters, May 2013
DOI 10.1111/ele.12098
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Authors

Camille Parmesan, Michael T. Burrows, Carlos M. Duarte, Elvira S. Poloczanska, Anthony J. Richardson, David S. Schoeman, Michael C. Singer

Abstract

There is increasing pressure from policymakers for ecologists to generate more detailed 'attribution' analyses aimed at quantitatively estimating relative contributions of different driving forces, including anthropogenic climate change (ACC), to observed biological changes. Here, we argue that this approach is not productive for ecological studies. Global meta-analyses of diverse species, regions and ecosystems have already given us 'very high confidence' [sensu Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)] that ACC has impacted wild species in a general sense. Further, for well-studied species or systems, synthesis of experiments and models with long-term observations has given us similarly high confidence that they have been impacted by regional climate change (regardless of its cause). However, the role of greenhouse gases in driving these impacts has not been estimated quantitatively. Should this be an ecological research priority? We argue that development of quantitative ecological models for this purpose faces several impediments, particularly the existence of strong, non-additive interactions among different external factors. However, even with current understanding of impacts of global warming, there are myriad climate change adaptation options already developed in the literature that could be, and in fact are being, implemented now.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 10 2%
Germany 4 <1%
Brazil 4 <1%
Portugal 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Argentina 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Colombia 2 <1%
Other 15 3%
Unknown 537 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 128 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 127 22%
Student > Master 84 14%
Student > Bachelor 43 7%
Professor 28 5%
Other 89 15%
Unknown 83 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 244 42%
Environmental Science 159 27%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 35 6%
Social Sciences 11 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 2%
Other 26 4%
Unknown 98 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 March 2023.
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#1,978,457
of 24,417,958 outputs
Outputs from Ecology Letters
#1,163
of 3,017 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,406
of 198,552 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ecology Letters
#21
of 38 outputs
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