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| Title |
Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change
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| Published in |
Science, August 2018
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.aan5360 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Connor Nolan, Jonathan T Overpeck, Judy R M Allen, Patricia M Anderson, Julio L Betancourt, Heather A Binney, Simon Brewer, Mark B Bush, Brian M Chase, Rachid Cheddadi, Morteza Djamali, John Dodson, Mary E Edwards, William D Gosling, Simon Haberle, Sara C Hotchkiss, Brian Huntley, Sarah J Ivory, A Peter Kershaw, Soo-Hyun Kim, Claudio Latorre, Michelle Leydet, Anne-Marie Lézine, Kam-Biu Liu, Yao Liu, A V Lozhkin, Matt S McGlone, Robert A Marchant, Arata Momohara, Patricio I Moreno, Stefanie Müller, Bette L Otto-Bliesner, Caiming Shen, Janelle Stevenson, Hikaru Takahara, Pavel E Tarasov, John Tipton, Annie Vincens, Chengyu Weng, Qinghai Xu, Zhuo Zheng, Stephen T Jackson |
| Abstract |
Impacts of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystems are imperfectly constrained by ecosystem models and direct observations. Pervasive ecosystem transformations occurred in response to warming and associated climatic changes during the last glacial-to-interglacial transition, which was comparable in magnitude to warming projected for the next century under high-emission scenarios. We reviewed 594 published paleoecological records to examine compositional and structural changes in terrestrial vegetation since the last glacial period and to project the magnitudes of ecosystem transformations under alternative future emission scenarios. Our results indicate that terrestrial ecosystems are highly sensitive to temperature change and suggest that, without major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems worldwide are at risk of major transformation, with accompanying disruption of ecosystem services and impacts on biodiversity. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 710 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 102 | 14% |
| Spain | 41 | 6% |
| Chile | 36 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 28 | 4% |
| France | 25 | 4% |
| Canada | 20 | 3% |
| Mexico | 18 | 3% |
| Germany | 17 | 2% |
| Australia | 15 | 2% |
| Other | 133 | 19% |
| Unknown | 275 | 39% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 523 | 74% |
| Scientists | 163 | 23% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 17 | 2% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | <1% |
| Unknown | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 512 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 512 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 92 | 18% |
| Researcher | 89 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 58 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 31 | 6% |
| Professor | 27 | 5% |
| Other | 86 | 17% |
| Unknown | 129 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 107 | 21% |
| Environmental Science | 105 | 21% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 56 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 16 | 3% |
| Engineering | 14 | 3% |
| Other | 61 | 12% |
| Unknown | 153 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1425. 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 25 November 2023.
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