A regionally coherent ecological fingerprint of climate change, evidenced from natural history collections.

ABSTRACT: Climate change has dramatic impacts on ecological systems, affecting a range of ecological factors including phenology, species abundance, diversity, and distribution. The breadth of climate change impacts on ecological systems leads to the occurrence of fingerprints of climate change. However, climate fingerprints are usually identified across broad geographical scales and are potentially influenced by publication biases. In this study, we used natural history collections spanning over 250 years, to quantify a range of ecological responses to climate change, including phenology, abundance, diversity, and distributions, across a range of taxa, including vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, and fungi, within a single region, Central Norway. We tested the hypotheses that ecological responses

SUBMITTER: Speed JDM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9627063 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature