Large extents of intensive land use limit community reorganization during climate warming.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is increasingly altering the composition of ecological communities, in combination with other environmental pressures such as high-intensity land use. Pressures are expected to interact in their effects, but the extent to which intensive human land use constrains community responses to climate change is currently unclear. A generic indicator of climate change impact, the community temperature index (CTI), has previously been used to suggest that both bird and butterflies are successfully 'tracking' climate change. Here, we assessed community changes at over 600 English bird or butterfly monitoring sites over three decades and tested how the surrounding land has influenced these changes. We partitioned community changes into warm- and cold-associated assemblages and found tha

SUBMITTER: Oliver TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6849802 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature