Journal article
Geographical limits to species-range shifts are suggested by climate velocity
MT Burrows, DS Schoeman, AJ Richardson, JG Molinos, A Hoffmann, LB Buckley, PJ Moore, CJ Brown, JF Bruno, CM Duarte, BS Halpern, O Hoegh-Guldberg, CV Kappel, W Kiessling, MI O'Connor, JM Pandolfi, C Parmesan, WJ Sydeman, S Ferrier, KJ Williams Show all
Nature | Published : 2014
DOI: 10.1038/nature12976
Abstract
The reorganization of patterns of species diversity driven by anthropogenic climate change, and the consequences for humans, are not yet fully understood or appreciated. Nevertheless, changes in climate conditions are useful for predicting shifts in species distributions at global and local scales. Here we use the velocity of climate change to derive spatial trajectories for climatic niches from 1960 to 2009 (ref. 7) and from 2006 to 2100, and use the properties of these trajectories to infer changes in species distributions. Coastlines act as barriers and locally cooler areas act as attractors for trajectories, creating source and sink areas for local climatic conditions. Climate source are..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was conducted as a part of the Towards Understanding Marine Biological Impacts of Climate Change Working Group supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a center funded by the NSF (grant no. EF-0553768), the University of California, Santa Barbara and the State of California. M. T. B., P.J.M. and J.G.M. were supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council grant NE/J024082/1. D. S. was supported by the Australian Research Council's Collaborative Research Network. J.P. thanks the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies for additional support, and A.J.R. was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP0879365 and Future Fellowship Grant FT0991722.