Impacts of recent climate change on terrestrial flora and fauna: Some emerging Australian examples

Biodiversity responds to increasing climatic extremes in a biome-specific manner

(2018) Aaron C. Greenville et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Biological responses to the press and pulse of climate trends and extreme events

(2018) R. M. B. Harris et al.   Nature Climate Change

Smaller beaks for colder winters: Thermoregulation drives beak size evolution in Australasian songbirds

(2017) Nicholas R. Friedman et al.   EVOLUTION

Bill size mediates behavioural thermoregulation in birds

(2017) Julia Ryeland et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Genomic Scans across Three Eucalypts Suggest that Adaptation to Aridity is a Genome-Wide Phenomenon

(2017) Dorothy A. Steane et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Climatic warming strengthens a positive feedback between alpine shrubs and fire

(2017) James S. Camac et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Relationship between viticultural climatic indices and grape maturity in Australia

(2017) C. Jarvis et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Frequent wildfires erode tree persistence and alter stand structure and initial composition of a fire-tolerant sub-alpine forest

(2017) Thomas A. Fairman et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Latitudinal change in the distribution of luderick Girella tricuspidata (Pisces: Girellidae) associated with increasing coastal water temperature in eastern Australia

(2017) B. R. Pollock   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Evidence of genomic adaptation to climate in Eucalyptus microcarpa : Implications for adaptive potential to projected climate change

(2017) Rebecca Jordan et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Unpacking boxes: Integration of molecular, morphological and ecological approaches reveals extensive patterns of reticulate evolution in box eucalypts

(2017) Lluvia Flores-Rentería et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals

(2017) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

Evergreen alpine shrubs have high freezing resistance in spring, irrespective of snowmelt timing and exposure to frost: an investigation from the Snowy Mountains, Australia

(2017) Susanna E. Venn et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Renewal ecology: conservation for the Anthropocene

(2017) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Genetic adaptation and phenotypic plasticity contribute to greater leaf hydraulic tolerance in response to drought in warmer climates

(2017) Chris J. Blackman et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Adaptation and acclimation both influence photosynthetic and respiratory temperature responses in Corymbia calophylla

(2017) Michael J. Aspinwall et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

The Bramble Cay melomys Melomys rubicola (Rodentia : Muridae): a first mammalian extinction caused by human-induced climate change?

(2017) Natalie L. Waller et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Genetic rescue increases fitness and aids rapid recovery of an endangered marsupial population

(2017) Andrew R. Weeks et al.   Nature Communications

Elevated CO2 does not increase eucalypt forest productivity on a low-phosphorus soil

(2017) David S. Ellsworth et al.   Nature Climate Change

Are long-term widespread avian body size changes related to food availability? A test using contemporaneous changes in carotenoid-based color

(2017) Roellen Little et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Symbionts in waiting: the dynamics of incipient endosymbiont complementation and replacement in minimal bacterial communities of psyllids

(2017) Jennifer L. Morrow et al.   Microbiome

New interventions are needed to save coral reefs

(2017) Ken Anthony et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Mangrove dieback during fluctuating sea levels

(2017) Catherine E. Lovelock et al.   Scientific Reports

Marine heatwave causes unprecedented regional mass bleaching of thermally resistant corals in northwestern Australia

(2017) Morane Le Nohaïc et al.   Scientific Reports

Atmospheric change causes declines in woodland arthropods and impacts specific trophic groups

(2016) Sarah L. Facey et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

The effects of temperature on offspring provisioning in a cooperative breeder

(2016) Elizabeth M. Wiley et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Fuels and landscape flammability in an Australian alpine environment

(2016) Imogen P. Fraser et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

The evolution of the avian bill as a thermoregulatory organ

(2016) Glenn J. Tattersall et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Fast and slow responses of Southern Ocean sea surface temperature to SAM in coupled climate models

(2016) Yavor Kostov et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Incorporating evolutionary adaptation in species distribution modelling reduces projected vulnerability to climate change

(2016) Alex Bush et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Codivergence of the primary bacterial endosymbiont of psyllids versus host switches and replacement of their secondary bacterial endosymbionts

(2016) Aidan A. G. Hall et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Emergence of heat extremes attributable to anthropogenic influences

(2016) Andrew D. King et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Boom and bust: rapid feedback responses between insect outbreak dynamics and canopy leaf area impacted by rainfall and CO2

(2016) Andrew N. Gherlenda et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Canopy leaf area of a mature evergreenEucalyptuswoodland does not respond to elevated atmospheric [CO2] but tracks water availability

(2016) Remko A. Duursma et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How drought-induced forest die-off alters microclimate and increases fuel loadings and fire potentials

(2016) Katinka X. Ruthrof et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Climate change, nutrition and immunity: Effects of elevated CO 2 and temperature on the immune function of an insect herbivore

(2016) Andrew N. Gherlenda et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Eucalyptus forest shows low structural resistance and resilience to climate change-type drought

(2016) George Matusick et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant and environmental factors associated with drought-induced mortality in two facultative phreatophytic trees

(2016) A. Challis et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Long-term empirical evidence of ocean warming leading to tropicalization of fish communities, increased herbivory, and loss of kelp

(2016) Adriana Vergés et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Egg size investment in superb fairy-wrens: helper effects are modulated by climate

(2016) N. E. Langmore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Prenatal acoustic communication programs offspring for high posthatching temperatures in a songbird

(2016) M. M. Mariette et al.   SCIENCE

The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people

(2016) Brett R. Scheffers et al.   SCIENCE

The Australian Bogong Moth Agrotis infusa: A Long-Distance Nocturnal Navigator

(2016) Eric Warrant et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

High atmospheric temperatures and ‘ambient incubation’ drive embryonic development and lead to earlier hatching in a passerine bird

(2016) Simon C. Griffith et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Wildlife Tunnel Enhances Population Viability

(2016) Rodney van der Ree et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Regulation of Heat Exchange across the Hornbill Beak: Functional Similarities with Toucans?

(2016) T. M. F. N. van de Ven et al.   PLoS One

Spatial Configuration of Drought Disturbance and Forest Gap Creation across Environmental Gradients

(2016) Margaret E. Andrew et al.   PLoS One

Anatomy of an outbreak: the biology and population dynamics of aCardiaspinapsyllid species in an endangered woodland ecosystem

(2015) Aidan A. G. Hall et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

A climate change context for the decline of a foundation tree species in south-western Australia: insights from phylogeography and species distribution modelling

(2015) Eleftheria Dalmaris et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

An International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List ecosystems risk assessment for alpine snow patch herbfields, South-Eastern Australia

(2015) R. J. Williams et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Microhabitat use by mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus): Implications for the conservation of small mammals in alpine environments

(2015) Haijing Shi et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Shifting time: recent changes to the phenology of Australian species

(2015) LJ Beaumont et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Linking phenological shifts to demographic change

(2015) S Ramula et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Phenological mismatch with abiotic conditions—implications for flowering in Arctic plants

(2015) Helen C. Wheeler et al.   ECOLOGY

Aerial sowing stopped the loss of alpine ash (Eucalyptus delegatensis) forests burnt by three short-interval fires in the Alpine National Park, Victoria, Australia

(2015) Owen D. Bassett et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Contrasting effects of climate on juvenile body size in a Southern Hemisphere passerine bird

(2015) Loeske E. B. Kruuk et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Rapid collapse of a sub-Antarctic alpine ecosystem: the role of climate and pathogens

(2015) Dana M. Bergstrom et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Climate-related spatial and temporal variation in bill morphology over the past century in Australian parrots

(2015) Daniel J. E. Campbell-Tennant et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Modeling rates of life form cover change in burned and unburned alpine heathland subject to experimental warming

(2015) James S. Camac et al.   OECOLOGIA

Can behaviour buffer the impacts of climate change on an arid-zone bird?

(2015) Susan J Cunningham et al.   OSTRICH

The impact of high temperatures on foraging behaviour and body condition in the Western Australian Magpie Cracticus tibicen dorsalis

(2015) Emily K Edwards et al.   OSTRICH

Evolution in action: climate change, biodiversity dynamics and emerging infectious disease

(2015) E. P. Hoberg et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Outbreak of Phoracantha semipunctata in Response to Severe Drought in a Mediterranean Eucalyptus Forest

(2015) Stephen Seaton et al.   Forests

Early Differential Responses of Co-dominant Canopy Species to Sudden and Severe Drought in a Mediterranean-climate Type Forest

(2015) Katinka Ruthrof et al.   Forests

Phylogenetic endemism in terrestrial mammals

(2015) Dan F. Rosauer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Spatial and temporal variation in damage and dieback in a threatened subantarctic cushion species

(2014) J. Whinam et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The capacity to cope with climate warming declines from temperate to tropical latitudes in two widely distributedEucalyptusspecies

(2014) John E. Drake et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sensitivity to thermal extremes in AustralianDrosophilaimplies similar impacts of climate change on the distribution of widespread and tropical species

(2014) Johannes Overgaard et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Temporal patterns of avian body size reflect linear size responses to broadscale environmental change over the last 50 years

(2014) Janet L. Gardner et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Genome-wide scans detect adaptation to aridity in a widespread forest tree species

(2014) Dorothy A. Steane et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Nutritional enhancement of leaves by a psyllid through senescence-like processes: insect manipulation or plant defence?

(2014) M. J. Steinbauer et al.   OECOLOGIA

Responses of leaf beetle larvae to elevated [CO2] and temperature depend on Eucalyptus species

(2014) Andrew N. Gherlenda et al.   OECOLOGIA

Spatio-temporal water dynamics in matureBanksia menziesiitrees during drought

(2014) Martin K.-F. Bader et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

Shifts in flowering phenology reshape a subalpine plant community

(2014) Paul J. CaraDonna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Co-ordination of growth, gas exchange and hydraulics define the carbon safety margin in tree species with contrasting drought strategies

(2014) P. J. Mitchell et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Assisted Gene Flow to Facilitate Local Adaptation to Climate Change

(2013) Sally N. Aitken et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Australian Snowpack Disappearing Under the Influence of Global Warming and Solar Activity

(2013) Francisco Sánchez-Bayo et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Vegetation-Banked Terraces on Subantarctic Macquarie Island: A Reappraisal

(2013) J. M. Selkirk-Bell et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Experimental warming and long-term vegetation dynamics in an alpine heathland

(2013) C.-H. Wahren et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Sudden forest canopy collapse corresponding with extreme drought and heat in a mediterranean-type eucalypt forest in southwestern Australia

(2013) George Matusick et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Climate warming and Bergmann's rule through time: is there any evidence?

(2013) Celine Teplitsky et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Interactive direct and plant-mediated effects of elevated atmospheric [CO2] and temperature on a eucalypt-feeding insect herbivore

(2013) T. J. Murray et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Abrupt fire regime change may cause landscape-wide loss of mature obligate seeder forests

(2013) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Dynamic size responses to climate change: prevailing effects of rising temperature drive long-term body size increases in a semi-arid passerine

(2013) Janet L. Gardner et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ontogenetic shifts in plant interactions vary with environmental severity and affect population structure

(2013) Peter C. le Roux et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plasticity of functional traits varies clinally along a rainfall gradient inEucalyptus tricarpa

(2013) ELIZABETH H. MCLEAN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Temperatures in Excess of Critical Thresholds Threaten Nestling Growth and Survival in A Rapidly-Warming Arid Savanna: A Study of Common Fiscals

(2013) Susan J. Cunningham et al.   PLoS One

Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss

(2013) R. Warren et al.   Nature Climate Change

Value of long-term ecological studies

(2012) DAVID B. LINDENMAYER et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Post-fire regeneration in alpine heathland: Does fire severity matter?

(2012) JAMES S. CAMAC et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Using assisted colonisation to conserve biodiversity and restore ecosystem function under climate change

(2012) Ian D. Lunt et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Feeling the heat: Australian landbirds and climate change

(2012) Andrew E. McKechnie et al.   EMU

The costs of keeping cool in a warming world: implications of high temperatures for foraging, thermoregulation and body condition of an arid-zone bird

(2012) Katherine L. du Plessis et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Landscape-scale assessment of tree crown dieback following extreme drought and heat in a Mediterranean eucalypt forest ecosystem

(2012) Niels Brouwers et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: roles of behaviour, physiology and adaptation

(2012) R. B. Huey et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Species distribution and crown decline are associated with contrasting water relations in four common sympatric eucalypt species in southwestern Australia

(2012) Pieter Poot et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

How does climate change cause extinction?

(2012) A. E. Cahill et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Consequences of widespread tree mortality triggered by drought and temperature stress

(2012) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate and landscape drivers of tree decline in a Mediterranean ecoregion

(2012) Niels C. Brouwers et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Dendroclimatological investigation of mainland Australia's only alpine conifer, Podocarpus lawrencei Hook.f

(2011) Keith L. McDougall et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

(2011) Isla H Myers-Smith et al.   Environmental Research Letters

El Niño/Southern Oscillation behaviour since 1871 as diagnosed in an extended multivariate ENSO index (MEI.ext)

(2011) Klaus Wolter et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Climate change and evolutionary adaptation

(2011) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   NATURE

Leaf-out phenology of temperate woody plants: from trees to ecosystems

(2011) Caroline A. Polgar et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Climate-associated phenological advances in bee pollinators and bee-pollinated plants

(2011) I. Bartomeus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic vs. phenotypic responses of trees to altitude

(2011) S. C. Thomas   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

(2011) Janet L. Gardner et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Geographical Variation in Bill Size across Bird Species Provides Evidence for Allen’s Rule

(2010) Matthew R. E. Symonds et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Early emergence in a butterfly causally linked to anthropogenic warming

(2010) M. R. Kearney et al.   Biology Letters

Distributions, life-history specialization, and phylogeny of the rain forest vertebrates in the Australian Wet Tropics

(2010) S. E. Williams et al.   ECOLOGY

Phenological changes in six Australian subalpine plants in response to experimental warming and year-to-year variation

(2010) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Validation of biological collections as a source of phenological data for use in climate change studies: a case study with the orchid Ophrys sphegodes

(2010) Karen M. Robbirt et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Phenology Under Global Warming

(2010) C. Korner et al.   SCIENCE

Impacts of experimental warming and fire on phenology of subalpine open-heath species

(2009) Frith C. Jarrad et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Phenological trends among Australian alpine species: using herbarium records to identify climate-change indicators

(2009) R. V. Gallagher et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Climate change increases the likelihood of catastrophic avian mortality events during extreme heat waves

(2009) A. E. McKechnie et al.   Biology Letters

Impacts of increased fire frequency and aridity on eucalypt forest structure, biomass and composition in southwest Australia

(2009) Burak K. Pekin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Integrating floral scent, pollination ecology and population genetics

(2009) Michael R. Whitehead et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Integrating biophysical models and evolutionary theory to predict climatic impacts on species’ ranges: the dengue mosquitoAedes aegyptiin Australia

(2009) Michael Kearney et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Identification and dynamics of a cryptic suture zone in tropical rainforest

(2009) C Moritz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate change effects on snow conditions in mainland Australia and adaptation at ski resorts through snowmaking

(2008) KJ Hennessy et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Key findings from the Indian Ocean Climate Initiative and their impact on policy development in Australia

(2008) Bryson C. Bates et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Effects of large fires on biodiversity in south-eastern Australia: disaster or template for diversity?

(2008) Ross A. Bradstock   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Large fires in Australian alpine landscapes: their part in the historical fire regime and their impacts on alpine biodiversity

(2008) Richard J. Williams et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Keeping up with a warming world; assessing the rate of adaptation to climate change

(2008) M. E Visser   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Towards an Integrated Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Species to Climate Change

(2008) Stephen E Williams et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Rapid loss of genetic variation in an endangered possum

(2007) P Mitrovski et al.   Biology Letters