Journal article
Impacts of recent climate change on terrestrial flora and fauna: Some emerging Australian examples
AA Hoffmann, PD Rymer, M Byrne, KX Ruthrof, J Whinam, M McGeoch, DM Bergstrom, GR Guerin, B Sparrow, L Joseph, SJ Hill, NR Andrew, J Camac, N Bell, M Riegler, JL Gardner, SE Williams
Austral Ecology | WILEY | Published : 2019
DOI: 10.1111/aec.12674
Abstract
The effects of anthropogenic climate change on biodiversity are well known for some high-profile Australian marine systems, including coral bleaching and kelp forest devastation. Less well-published are the impacts of climate change being observed in terrestrial ecosystems, although ecological models have predicted substantial changes are likely. Detecting and attributing terrestrial changes to anthropogenic factors is difficult due to the ecological importance of extreme conditions, the noisy nature of short-term data collected with limited resources, and complexities introduced by biotic interactions. Here, we provide a suite of case studies that have considered possible impacts of anthrop..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The Subantarctic research is funded by an Australian Antarctic Science Programme Grants (AAS 3095, 4192, 4312); the contributors thank Catherine Dickson for use of the photographs. The Alpine vegetation monitoring has been supported by grants from the Australian Research Council via their Linkage program and the Long Term Ecological Research Network. The Wet Tropics vertebrate biodiversity research was funded by National Environmental Research Program, Earthwatch Institute, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network and the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility. Research in the southwestern Australian forests and woodlands has been supported by ARC Linkage Projects (LP0455349, LP150100936) and The Centre for Climate Change, Woodland and Forest Health, which is a partnership between private industry, community groups, Universities and the Government of Western Australia. Dr George Matusick provided aerial photographs Research of the Northern Jarrah Forest psyllid induced dieback in the Cumberland Plain Woodland was funded. The work on avian body size has been supported by the NSW Environmental Trust and the Australian Research Council.