Climate-related range shifts - a global multidimensional synthesis and new research directions

Ecological responses of plant species and communities to climate warming: upward shift or range filling processes?

(2014) Nicoletta Cannone et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Illuminating geographical patterns in species' range shifts

(2014) Gaël Grenouillet et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation

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

Altitudinal Changes in Malaria Incidence in Highlands of Ethiopia and Colombia

(2014) A. S. Siraj et al.   SCIENCE

Disequilibrium vegetation dynamics under future climate change

(2013) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Assessing changes in species distribution from sequential large-scale forest inventories

(2013) Laura Hernández et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Do stream fish track climate change? Assessing distribution shifts in recent decades

(2013) Lise Comte et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Rapid climate driven shifts in wintering distributions of three common waterbird species

(2013) Aleksi Lehikoinen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Shifts in plant species elevational range limits and abundances observed over nearly five decades in a western North America mountain range

(2013) Christopher W. Kopp et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Bumblebee community homogenization after uphill shifts in montane areas of northern Spain

(2013) Emilie F. Ploquin et al.   OECOLOGIA

Climate-Induced Elevational Range Shifts and Increase in Plant Species Richness in a Himalayan Biodiversity Epicentre

(2013) Yasmeen Telwala et al.   PLoS One

Climate Change and Eutrophication Induced Shifts in Northern Summer Plankton Communities

(2013) Sanna Suikkanen et al.   PLoS One

Poleward expansion of mangroves is a threshold response to decreased frequency of extreme cold events

(2013) K. C. Cavanaugh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Marine Taxa Track Local Climate Velocities

(2013) M. L. Pinsky et al.   SCIENCE

Global imprint of climate change on marine life

(2013) Elvira S. Poloczanska et al.   Nature Climate Change

Some poleward movement of British native vascular plants is occurring, but the fingerprint of climate change is not evident

(2013) Quentin J. Groom   PeerJ

Upward expansion of fire-adapted grasses along a warming tropical elevation gradient

(2012) Courtney L. Angelo et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Upward shift in elevational plant species ranges in Sikkilsdalen, central Norway

(2012) Vivian Astrup Felde et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Using rigorous selection criteria to investigate marine range shifts

(2012) Rachel Przeslawski et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

The push and pull of climate change causes heterogeneous shifts in avian elevational ranges

(2012) Morgan W. Tingley et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Widespread shifts in the demographic structure of subalpine forests in the Sierra Nevada, California, 1934 to 2007

(2012) Christopher R. Dolanc et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Bottom-up effects of climate on fish populations: data from the Continuous Plankton Recorder

(2012) SG Pitois et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The Breeding Ranges of Central European and Arctic Bird Species Move Poleward

(2012) Jon E. Brommer et al.   PLoS One

Upper thermal limits of Drosophila are linked to species distributions and strongly constrained phylogenetically

(2012) V. Kellermann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Thermal tolerance and the global redistribution of animals

(2012) Jennifer M. Sunday et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate-driven changes in northeastern US butterfly communities

(2012) Greg A. Breed et al.   Nature Climate Change

Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale

(2012) Vincent Devictor et al.   Nature Climate Change

Focus on poleward shifts in species' distribution underestimates the fingerprint of climate change

(2012) Jeremy VanDerWal et al.   Nature Climate Change

Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

(2012) Michael Gottfried et al.   Nature Climate Change

Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

(2012) Stefan Dullinger et al.   Nature Climate Change

Warming off southwestern Japan linked to distributional shifts of subtidal canopy-forming seaweeds

(2012) Kouki Tanaka et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Northward Shifts of the Distributions of Spanish Reptiles in Association with Climate Change

(2011) GREGORIO MORENO-RUEDA et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Continental Shelf-Wide Response of a Fish Assemblage to Rapid Warming of the Sea

(2011) Stephen D. Simpson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Seaweed Communities in Retreat from Ocean Warming

(2011) Thomas Wernberg et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Changes in bird communities in Swaziland savannas between 1998 and 2008 owing to shrub encroachment

(2011) Clelia Sirami et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Interrogating recent range changes in South African birds: confounding signals from land use and climate change present a challenge for attribution

(2011) Philip A. R. Hockey et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Rapid altitudinal migration of mountain plants in Taiwan and its implications for high altitude biodiversity

(2011) Alistair S. Jump et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Do species’ traits predict recent shifts at expanding range edges?

(2011) Amy L. Angert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change

(2011) Kai Zhu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Distributional migrations, expansions, and contractions of tropical plant species as revealed in dated herbarium records

(2011) Kenneth J. Feeley   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Nine decades of North Sea sole and plaice distribution

(2011) G. H. Engelhard et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Ecological correlates of distribution change and range shift in butterflies

(2011) NIINA MATTILA et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Little change in the distribution of rocky shore faunal communities on the Australian east coast after 50years of rapid warming

(2011) Elvira S. Poloczanska et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Changes in plant community composition lag behind climate warming in lowland forests

(2011) Romain Bertrand et al.   NATURE

Elevational Ranges of Birds on a Tropical Montane Gradient Lag behind Warming Temperatures

(2011) German Forero-Medina et al.   PLoS One

Widespread crown condition decline, food web disruption, and amplified tree mortality with increased climate change-type drought

(2011) J. Carnicer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Range contraction in large pelagic predators

(2011) B. Worm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate variability drives anchovies and sardines into the North and Baltic Seas

(2011) Jürgen Alheit et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2011) M. T. Burrows et al.   SCIENCE

Climate Change, Keystone Predation, and Biodiversity Loss

(2011) C. D. G. Harley   SCIENCE

Changes in Climatic Water Balance Drive Downhill Shifts in Plant Species' Optimum Elevations

(2011) S. M. Crimmins et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Plant species’ range shifts in mountainous areas—all uphill from here?

(2010) Esther Frei et al.   BOTANICA HELVETICA

Individualistic species limitations of climate-induced range expansions generated by meso-scale dispersal barriers

(2010) Sally A. Keith et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Are Swiss birds tracking climate change?

(2010) Ramona Maggini et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Signatures of range expansion and erosion in eastern North American trees

(2010) Helen T. Murphy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global patterns in the biogeography of bacterial taxa

(2010) Diana R. Nemergut et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Long-term shifts in abundance and distribution of a temperate fish fauna: a response to climate change and fishing practices

(2010) Peter R. Last et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Upslope migration of Andean trees

(2010) Kenneth J. Feeley et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climate-driven range changes in Tasmanian intertidal fauna

(2010) Nicole R. Pitt et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Global phytoplankton decline over the past century

(2010) Daniel G. Boyce et al.   NATURE

Climate Change Risks and Conservation Implications for a Threatened Small-Range Mammal Species

(2010) Naia Morueta-Holme et al.   PLoS One

Bird population trends are linearly affected by climate change along species thermal ranges

(2010) F. Jiguet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches

(2010) B. Sinervo et al.   SCIENCE

An elevational shift of cryophilous bryophytes in the last century - an effect of climate warming?

(2009) Ariel Bergamini et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Some like it hot! Rapid climate change promotes changes in distribution ranges ofNezara viridulaandNezara antennatain Japan

(2009) Daisuke Tougou et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Helgoland Roads, North Sea: 45 Years of Change

(2009) Karen Helen Wiltshire et al.   Estuaries and Coasts

Poleward shifts in breeding bird distributions in New York State

(2009) BENJAMIN ZUCKERBERG et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate-induced changes in the small mammal communities of the Northern Great Lakes Region

(2009) PHILIP MYERS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biotic attrition from tropical forests correcting for truncated temperature niches

(2009) KENNETH J. FEELEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A weak upward elevational shift in the distributions of breeding birds in the Italian Alps

(2009) Simon Popy et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Tree mortality in the African Sahel indicates an anthropogenic ecosystem displaced by climate change

(2009) Steven Maranz   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Changing spatial distribution of fish stocks in relation to climate and population size on the Northeast United States continental shelf

(2009) JA Nye et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The velocity of climate change

(2009) Scott R. Loarie et al.   NATURE

Elevation increases in moth assemblages over 42 years on a tropical mountain

(2009) I.-C. Chen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States

(2009) P. J. van Mantgem et al.   SCIENCE

The altitude-for-latitude disparity in the range retractions of woody species

(2009) Alistair S. Jump et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Detecting range shifts from historical species occurrences: new perspectives on old data

(2009) Morgan W. Tingley et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

ALTERATION OF SEAGRASS SPECIES COMPOSITION AND FUNCTION OVER TWO DECADES

(2008) Fiorenza Micheli et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Rapid range expansion and community reorganization in response to warming

(2008) PETER C. le ROUX et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Extinction vulnerability of tropical montane endemism from warming and upslope displacement: a preliminary appraisal for the highest massif in Madagascar

(2008) CHRISTOPHER J. RAXWORTHY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate change and outbreaks of the geometrids Operophtera brumata and Epirrita autumnata in subarctic birch forest: evidence of a recent outbreak range expansion

(2008) Jane U. Jepsen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Climate change and deepening of the North Sea fish assemblage: a biotic indicator of warming seas

(2008) Nicholas K. Dulvy et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Long-term changes in phytoplankton in the Kattegat, the Belt Sea, the Sound and the western Baltic Sea

(2008) Peter Henriksen   JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH

Phytoplankton biodiversity and NW Mediterranean Sea warming: changes in the dinoflagellate genus Ceratium in the 20th century

(2008) A Tunin-Ley et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Vegetation synchronously leans upslope as climate warms

(2008) D. D. Breshears et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climatic change and wetland desiccation cause amphibian decline in Yellowstone National Park

(2008) S. K. McMenamin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid shifts in plant distribution with recent climate change

(2008) A. E. Kelly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Populations of migratory bird species that did not show a phenological response to climate change are declining

(2008) A. P. Moller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude

(2008) C. A. Deutsch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impact of a Century of Climate Change on Small-Mammal Communities in Yosemite National Park, USA

(2008) C. Moritz et al.   SCIENCE

A Significant Upward Shift in Plant Species Optimum Elevation During the 20th Century

(2008) J. Lenoir et al.   SCIENCE

Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics

(2008) R. K. Colwell et al.   SCIENCE

Upward migration of vascular plants following a climate warming trend in the Alps

(2007) Gilberto Parolo et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY