There's a storm a-coming: Ecological resilience and resistance to extreme weather events.

ABSTRACT: Extreme weather events (EWEs) are expected to increase in stochasticity, frequency, and intensity due to climate change. Documented effects of EWEs, such as droughts, hurricanes, and temperature extremes, range from shifting community stable states to species extirpations. To date, little attention has been paid to how populations resist and/or recover from EWEs through compensatory (behavioral, demographic, or physiological) mechanisms; limiting the capacity to predict species responses to future changes in EWEs. Here, we systematically reviewed the global variation in species' demographic responses, resistance to, and recovery from EWEs across weather types, species, and biogeographic regions. Through a literature review and meta-analysis, we tested the prediction that population abundan

SUBMITTER: Neilson EW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7664005 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature