Recent climate-driven ecological change across a continent as perceived through local ecological knowledge.

ABSTRACT: Documenting effects of climate change is an important step towards designing mitigation and adaptation responses. Impacts of climate change on terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems have been well-documented in the Northern Hemisphere, but long-term data to detect change in the Southern Hemisphere are limited, and some types of change are generally difficult to measure. Here we present a novel approach using local ecological knowledge to facilitate a continent-scale view of climate change impacts on terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems that people have perceived in Australia. We sought local knowledge using a national web-based survey, targeting respondents with close links to the environment (e.g. farmers, ecologists), and using a custom-built mapping tool to ask respondents to descri

SUBMITTER: Prober SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6874335 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature