Article
Environmental Sciences
Melody S. Clark, Lloyd S. Peck, Jakob Thyrring
Summary: The Arctic is warming rapidly, allowing invasive species to survive. Some marine species can tolerate high temperatures, but the Mytilus edulis is usually unable to survive in extreme heat. Research indicates that M. edulis has a wide acclimation ability, enabling it to withstand Arctic warming and temperature variations.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Emma E. Ramsay, Genie M. Fleming, Peter A. Faber, S. Fiona Barker, Rohan Sweeney, Ruzka R. Taruc, Steven L. Chown, Grant A. Duffy
Summary: Informal settlement residents experience chronic heat stress conditions, with wet bulb temperatures and wet bulb globe temperatures approaching the uppermost limits of human survivability, which are underestimated by weather stations.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Jiayan Li, Ranhao Sun, Liding Chen
Summary: The urban thermal environment is crucial for human health, but the relationship between thermal perception and background climates is not well understood. This study provides a global review of quantification methods, climate differences, and adaptation strategies for outdoor and indoor thermal comfort over the past 30 years. The research found that most studies were focused on temperate climate zones, particularly in China, leading to potential bias in results. The study also revealed differences in neutral temperatures and acceptable ranges between different climate zones, with snow climate zones having the lowest neutral temperature and the widest outdoor acceptable range.
Article
Ecology
Wenwen Liu, Steven C. Pennings
Summary: This study explored the importance of plant species and different habitat conditions to synchrony in plant productivity across coastal marsh habitats in Georgia, USA. Synchrony was highest within a plant species and within a marsh zone, and decreased across species with increasing distance and elevational differences. Abiotic conditions, such as water column temperature and salinity, also showed high synchrony among sites, pointing to the Moran effect as a likely explanation for the findings.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ted J. J. Lawrence, Justin M. M. Vilbig, Geoffrey Kangogo, Eric M. M. Fevre, Sharon L. L. Deem, Ilona Gluecks, Vasit Sagan, Enbal Shacham
Summary: Human-induced climate change has caused significant shifts in climate zones in Kenya, resulting in changes to agricultural land use and ecosystems. Temperature has increased by approximately 1 degree Celsius, with large areas shifting to hotter and drier zones. These changes have negative impacts on ecosystem and climatic diversity, as well as global drylands.
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Philip J. Klotzbach, Kimberly M. Wood, Carl J. Schreck, Steven G. Bowen, Christina M. Patricola, Michael M. Bell
Summary: This study examines global tropical cyclone activity trends from 1990 to 2021, revealing decreases in hurricane numbers and ACE, along with increases in short-lived named storms and TC-related damage. These trends may be attributed to technological advancements and higher potential intensity.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Michael A. Kaminski, Abduljamiu Amao, Lamidi Babalola, Ali Bu Khamsin, Flavia Fiorini, Andrea M. Garrison, Hafiz M. Gull, Robert L. Johnson, Bassam Tawabini, Fabrizio Frontalini, Thomas F. Garrison
Summary: The high temperatures in Bahrain's intertidal zone have led to the formation of a dead zone for meiofaunal organisms during the hottest months of the year. The presence of these extreme conditions is consistent with climate models predicting a lack of support for eukaryotic life in certain areas of the Arabian Gulf.
REGIONAL STUDIES IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Biology
Jakob Thyrring, Lloyd S. Peck
Summary: Global latitudinal diversity gradients in rocky intertidal alpha-diversity exist, but they are outweighed by local processes rather than global-scale drivers. Species richness of three functional groups declines with latitude, coinciding with an inverse gradient in algae distribution.
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Kerry Emanuel
Summary: Global models of CMIP6 have been downscaled using a high-resolution tropical cyclone model, showing an increase in both frequency and severity of tropical cyclones in response to increasing greenhouse gases, especially in the Northern Hemisphere.
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Savin S. Chand, Kevin J. E. Walsh, Suzana J. Camargo, James P. Kossin, Kevin J. Tory, Michael F. Wehner, Johnny C. L. Chan, Philip J. Klotzbach, Andrew J. Dowdy, Samuel S. Bell, Hamish A. Ramsay, Hiroyuki Murakami
Summary: Using reconstructed long-term proxy data and high-resolution climate model experiments, this study finds robust declining trends in the annual number of tropical cyclones (TCs) at global and regional scales during the twentieth century. These declining trends are consistent with the weakening of the Hadley and Walker circulations during the same period.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Tsung-Lin Hsieh, Wenchang Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Ming Zhao
Summary: The future projection of tropical cyclone frequency is highly uncertain. Recent studies suggest that the spread of seed patterns is correlated with the spread of cyclone patterns. The relationship between seed frequency and climate perturbations can be explained using a downscaling theory.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Nina Paul, Sara C. Novais, Catia S. E. Silva, Susana Mendes, Andreas Kunzmann, Marco F. L. Lemos
Summary: The study showed that predation stress reduced the cellular metabolism and increased protein storage in G. paganellus. Additionally, hyperthermia decreased aerobic mitochondrial metabolism, indicating thermal compensation mechanisms. Thermal stress was the dominant stressor overriding responses to predation stress.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Kelly Ribeiro, Felipe S. Pacheco, Jose W. Ferreira, Eraclito R. de Sousa-Neto, Adam Hastie, Guenther C. Krieger Filho, Plinio C. Alvala, Maria C. Forti, Jean P. Ometto
Summary: This paper provides an overview of tropical peatlands, highlighting their biophysical characteristics, distribution, carbon stock, role in the global climate, and the impacts of human disturbances on carbon accumulation rates and greenhouse gas emissions. Despite being a significant carbon sink, tropical peatlands are still under-researched, with gaps in knowledge regarding their distribution, depth, carbon stock, and fluxes.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2021)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Moriaki Yasuhara, Curtis A. Deutsch
Summary: The increase in species diversity towards the tropics is a remarkable global phenomenon that has not been fully explained yet. Evidence from ocean microfossils suggests that this pattern emerged due to ancient climate cooling and polar-climate dynamics.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Gil Rilov, Lior Klein, David Iluz, Zvy Dubinsky, Tamar Guy-Haim
Summary: Ocean warming poses a threat to marine ecosystems and the survival of species, particularly in extreme and variable environments like the intertidal zone. A study in the warmest part of the Mediterranean Sea found that native gastropods were more vulnerable to increasing temperatures compared to a tropical species, suggesting potential long-term changes in the composition of intertidal communities.
BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS
(2022)