An ecological 'footprint' of climate change
Författare
Summary, in English
Recently, there has been increasing evidence of species' range shifts due to changes in climate. Whereas most of these shifts relate ground truth biogeographic data to a general warming trend in regional or global climate data, we here present a reanalysis of both biogeographic and bioclimatic data of equal spatio-temporal resolution, covering a time span of more than 50 years. Our results reveal a coherent and synchronous shift in both species' distribution and climate. They show not only a shift in the northern margin of a species, which is in concert with gradually increasing winter temperatures in the area, they also confirm the simulated species' distribution changes expected from a bioclimatic model under the recent, relatively moderate climate change.
Publiceringsår
2005
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1427-1432
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences
Volym
272
Issue
1571
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Royal Society Publishing
Ämne
- Physical Geography
Nyckelord
- evergreen
- bioclimatic model
- bioindicator
- range shift
- global warming
- Ilex aquifolium
- broad-leaved species
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1471-2954