Biology & Life Sciences

Ecological Impacts of Climate Change

Published October 10, 2017 Curated Collections

The ecological impacts of climate change are broad and diverse, altering species' range limits, plant phenology and growth, carbon and nutrient cycling, as well as biodiversity and extinction risk. Over the past year, PLOS has published a wide range of research on the ecological impacts of climate change. The breadth of topics includes everything from impacts of climate change on the immune competency of marine mammals to the global distribution of mosquito borne-diseases and their hosts. This collection also includes some recent research modeling and analyzing the global ecological impacts of climate change as well as the synthesis of datasets from literature in two new systematic reviews. PLOS journals recognize the importance in publishing and highlighting climate change research, and we thank our authors for their significant contributions to this field.

Image Credit: (Clockwise from top): William Warby. Flickr.com. Thomas Vignaud. PLOS Biology. 2011. 9(4). Colombi et al. PLOS ONE. 2013. Soto-Azat et al. PLOS ONE. 2013.

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Large-scale Vulnerability Assessments
Pests and Disturbance
Soils in a Warming World
Climate Impacts: Plants
Climate Impacts: Oceans
Climate Impacts: Animals
Ecosystems and Human Health
Learning from the Past
Management and Conservation
Interactions and Communities
2015-2016 Collection Update
Associated Collection Blogs

Large-scale Vulnerability Assessments

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10.1371/journal.pone.0173812

PLOS ONE A systematic review of ecological attributes that confer resilience to climate change in environmental restoration
March 16, 2017 Britta L. Timpane-Padgham, Tim Beechie, Terrie Klinger
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10.1371/journal.pbio.2001104

PLOS Biology Climate-Related Local Extinctions Are Already Widespread among Plant and Animal Species
December 8, 2016 John J. Wiens
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10.1371/journal.pone.0157929

PLOS ONE Human Impacts and Climate Change Influence Nestedness and Modularity in Food-Web and Mutualistic Networks
June 20, 2016 Kazuhiro Takemoto, Kosuke Kajihara
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10.1371/journal.pone.0153589

PLOS ONE Incorporating Anthropogenic Influences into Fire Probability Models: Effects of Human Activity and Climate Change on Fire Activity in California
April 28, 2016 Michael L. Mann, Enric Batllori, Max A. Moritz, Eric K. Waller, Peter Berck, Alan L. Flint, Lorraine E. Flint, Emmalee Dolfi
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002415

PLOS Biology Remotely Sensed High-Resolution Global Cloud Dynamics for Predicting Ecosystem and Biodiversity Distributions
March 31, 2016 Adam M. Wilson, Walter Jetz
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002413

PLOS Biology Conservation Research Is Not Happening Where It Is Most Needed
March 29, 2016 Kerrie A. Wilson, Nancy A. Auerbach, Katerina Sam, Ariana G. Magini, Alexander St. L. Moss, Simone D. Langhans, Sugeng Budiharta, Dilva Terzano, Erik Meijaard
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10.1371/journal.pone.0122163

PLOS ONE Drivers and Patterns of Ground-Dwelling Beetle Biodiversity across Northern Canada
April 22, 2015 Crystal Ernst, Christopher Buddle
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10.1371/journal.pone.0120198

PLOS ONE Dead Shrimp Blues: A Global Assessment of Extinction Risk in Freshwater Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)
March 25, 2015 Sammy De Grave, Kevin Smith, Nils Adeler, Dave Allen, Fernando Alvarez, Arthur Anker, Yixiong Cai, Savrina Carrizo, Werner Klotz, Fernando Mantelatto, Timothy Page, Jhy-Yun Shy, José Luis Villalobos, Daisy Wowor
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10.1371/journal.pone.0113118

PLOS ONE Trends in Extinction Risk for Imperiled Species in Canada
November 17, 2014 Brett Favaro, Danielle Claar, Caroline Fox, Cameron Freshwater, Jessica Holden, Allan Roberts
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10.1371/journal.pone.0113746

PLOS ONE Projected Polar Bear Sea Ice Habitat in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
November 26, 2014 Stephen Hamilton, Laura Castro de la Guardia, Andrew Derocher, Vicki Sahanatien, Bruno Tremblay, David Huard
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10.1371/journal.pone.0107525

PLOS ONE Persistence and Change in Community Composition of Reef Corals through Present, Past, and Future Climates
October 1, 2014 Peter Edmunds, Mehdi Adjeroud, Marissa Baskett, Iliana Baums, Ann Budd, Robert Carpenter, Nicholas Fabina, Tung-Yung Fan, Erik Franklin, Kevin Gross, Xueying Han, Lianne Jacobson, James Klaus, Tim McClanahan, Jennifer O'Leary, Madeleine van Oppen, Xavier Pochon, Hollie Putnam, Tyler Smith, Michael Stat, Hugh Sweatman, Robert van Woesik, Ruth Gates
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001682

PLOS Biology Biotic and Human Vulnerability to Projected Changes in Ocean Biogeochemistry over the 21st Century
October 15, 2013 Camilo Mora, Chih-Lin Wei, Audrey Rollo, Teresa Amaro, Amy Baco, David Billett, Laurent Bopp, Qi Chen, Mark Collier, Roberto Danovaro, Andrew Gooday, Benjamin Grupe, Paul Halloran, Jeroen Ingels, Daniel Jones, Lisa Levin, Hideyuki Nakano, Karl Norling, Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Michael Rex, Henry Ruhl, Craig Smith, Andrew Sweetman, Andrew Thurber, Jerry Tjiputra, Paolo Usseglio, Les Watling, Tongwen Wu, Moriaki Yasuhara
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10.1371/journal.pone.0074989

PLOS ONE Threats from Climate Change to Terrestrial Vertebrate Hotspots in Europe
September 16, 2013 Luigi Maiorano, Giovanni Amori, Massimo Capula, Alessandra Falcucci, Monica Masi, Alessandro Montemaggiori, Julien Pottier, Achilleas Psomas, Carlo Rondinini, Danilo Russo, Niklaus Zimmermann, Luigi Boitani, Antoine Guisan
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10.1371/journal.pone.0065427

PLOS ONE Identifying the World’s Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals
June 12, 2013 Wendy B. Foden, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Simon N. Stuart, Jean-Christophe Vié, H. Resit Akçakaya, Ariadne Angulo, Lyndon M. DeVantier, Alexander Gutsche, Emre Turak, Long Cao, Simon D. Donner, Vineet Katariya, Rodolphe Bernard, Robert A. Holland, Adrian F. Hughes, Susannah E. O’Hanlon, Stephen T. Garnett, Çagan H. Şekercioğlu, Georgina M. Mace
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10.1371/journal.pone.0029507

PLOS ONE A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of California’s At-Risk Birds
March 2, 2012 Thomas Gardali, Nathaniel Seavy, Ryan DiGaudio, Lyann Comrack

Pests and Disturbance

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10.1371/journal.pone.0153237

PLOS ONE Future Risks of Pest Species under Changing Climatic Conditions
April 7, 2016 Lisa Biber-Freudenberger, Jasmin Ziemacki, Henri E. Z. Tonnang, Christian Borgemeister
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004151

PLOS Computational Biology Modeling the Impact of White-Plague Coral Disease in Climate Change Scenarios
June 18, 2015 Assaf Zvuloni, Guy Katriel, Yossi Loya, Lewi Stone, Yael Artzy-Randrup
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10.1371/journal.pone.0106971

PLOS ONE Historical, Observed, and Modeled Wildfire Severity in Montane Forests of the Colorado Front Range
September 24, 2014 Rosemary Sherriff, Rutherford Platt, Thomas Veblen, Tania Schoennagel, Meredith Gartner
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10.1371/journal.pone.0092770

PLOS ONE Growth-Mortality Relationships in Piñon Pine (Pinus edulis) during Severe Droughts of the Past Century: Shifting Processes in Space and Time
May 2, 2014 Alison Macalady, Harald Bugmann
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10.1371/journal.pone.0075438

PLOS ONE Climate Change May Boost the Invasion of the Asian Needle Ant
October 4, 2013 Cleo Bertelsmeier, Benoît Guénard, Franck Courchamp
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10.1371/journal.pone.0059687

PLOS ONE Urban Warming Drives Insect Pest Abundance on Street Trees
March 27, 2013 Emily Meineke, Robert Dunn, Joseph Sexton, Steven Frank
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10.1371/journal.pone.0024528

PLOS ONE Some Like It Hot: The Influence and Implications of Climate Change on Coffee Berry Borer (Hypothenemus hampei) and Coffee Production in East Africa
September 14, 2011 Juliana Jaramillo, Eric Muchugu, Fernando E. Vega, Aaron Davis, Christian Borgemeister, Adenirin Chabi-Olaye

Soils in a Warming World

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10.1371/journal.pone.0165448

PLOS ONE The Role of Microbial Community Composition in Controlling Soil Respiration Responses to Temperature
October 31, 2016 Marc D. Auffret, Kristiina Karhu, Amit Khachane, Jennifer A. J. Dungait, Fiona Fraser, David W. Hopkins, Philip A. Wookey, Brajesh K. Singh, Thomas E. Freitag, Iain P. Hartley, James I. Prosser
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10.1371/journal.pone.0156083

PLOS ONE Climate Change and Maize Yield in Iowa
May 24, 2016 Hong Xu, Tracy E. Twine, Evan Girvetz
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10.1371/journal.pone.0153357

PLOS ONE Deforestation Induced Climate Change: Effects of Spatial Scale
April 21, 2016 Patrick Longobardi, Hugo Beltrami, Michael Eby, Alvaro Montenegro
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10.1371/journal.pone.0123999

PLOS ONE Properties of Soil Pore Space Regulate Pathways of Plant Residue Decomposition and Community Structure of Associated Bacteria
April 24, 2015 Wakene Negassa, Andrey Guber, Alexandra Kravchenko, Terence Marsh, Britton Hildebrandt, Mark Rivers
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10.1371/journal.pone.0119184

PLOS ONE Turnover of Grassland Roots in Mountain Ecosystems Revealed by Their Radiocarbon Signature: Role of Temperature and Management
March 3, 2015 Jens Leifeld, Stefanie Meyer, Karen Budge, Maria Teresa Sebastia, Michael Zimmermann, Juerg Fuhrer

Climate Impacts: Plants

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10.1371/journal.pone.0158823

PLOS ONE Climate Change Impairs Nitrogen Cycling in European Beech Forests
July 13, 2016 Michael Dannenmann, Carolin Bimüller, Silvia Gschwendtner, Martin Leberecht, Javier Tejedor, Silvija Bilela, Rainer Gasche, Marc Hanewinkel, Andri Baltensweiler, Ingrid Kögel-Knabner, Andrea Polle, Michael Schloter, Judy Simon, Heinz Rennenberg
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10.1371/journal.pone.0151811

PLOS ONE Exploring Climate Niches of Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex Lawson) Haplotypes in the Western United States: Implications for Evolutionary History and Conservation
March 17, 2016 Douglas J. Shinneman, Robert E. Means, Kevin M. Potter, Valerie D. Hipkins
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10.1371/journal.pone.0148607

PLOS ONE Functional Resilience against Climate-Driven Extinctions – Comparing the Functional Diversity of European and North American Tree Floras
February 5, 2016 Mario Liebergesell, Björn Reu, Ulrike Stahl, Martin Freiberg, Erik Welk, Jens Kattge, J. Hans C. Cornelissen, Josep Peñuelas, Christian Wirth
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10.1371/journal.pone.0105380

PLOS ONE Pushing the Pace of Tree Species Migration
August 27, 2014 Eli Lazarus, Brian McGill
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10.1371/journal.pone.0100577

PLOS ONE Growth and Phenology of Three Dwarf Shrub Species in a Six-Year Soil Warming Experiment at the Alpine Treeline
June 23, 2014 Alba Anadon-Rosell, Christian Rixen, Paolo Cherubini, Sonja Wipf, Frank Hagedorn, Melissa Dawes
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10.1371/journal.pone.0053788

PLOS ONE Record-Breaking Early Flowering in the Eastern United States
January 16, 2013 Elizabeth Ellwood, Stanley Temple, Richard Primack, Nina Bradley, Charles Davis
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10.1371/journal.pone.0047981

PLOS ONE The Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Arabica Coffee (Coffea arabica): Predicting Future Trends and Identifying Priorities
November 7, 2012 Aaron Davis, Tadesse Gole, Susana Baena, Justin Moat

Climate Impacts: Oceans

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10.1371/journal.pone.0179359

PLOS ONE Climatic anomaly affects the immune competence of California sea lions
June 28, 2017 Marina Banuet-Martínez, Wendy Espinosa-de Aquino, Fernando R. Elorriaga-Verplancken, Adriana Flores-Morán, Olga P. García, Mariela Camacho, Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse
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10.1371/journal.pone.0159068

PLOS ONE Influence of Ocean Acidification on a Natural Winter-to-Summer Plankton Succession: First Insights from a Long-Term Mesocosm Study Draw Attention to Periods of Low Nutrient Concentrations
August 15, 2016 Lennart T. Bach, Jan Taucher, Tim Boxhammer, Andrea Ludwig, The Kristineberg KOSMOS Consortium , Eric P. Achterberg, María Algueró-Muñiz, Leif G. Anderson, Jessica Bellworthy, Jan Büdenbender, Jan Czerny, Ylva Ericson, Mario Esposito, Matthias Fischer, Mathias Haunost, Dana Hellemann, Henriette G. Horn, Thomas Hornick, Jana Meyer, Michael Sswat, Maren Zark, Ulf Riebesell
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10.1371/journal.pone.0139223

PLOS ONE Transcriptomic Changes in Coral Holobionts Provide Insights into Physiological Challenges of Future Climate and Ocean Change
October 28, 2015 Paulina Kaniewska, Chon-Kit Kenneth Chan, David Kline, Edmund Yew Siang Ling, Nedeljka Rosic, David Edwards, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Sophie Dove
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10.1371/journal.pone.0115655

PLOS ONE Global Warming and Mass Mortalities of Benthic Invertebrates in the Mediterranean Sea
December 23, 2014 Irene Rivetti, Simonetta Fraschetti, Piero Lionello, Enrico Zambianchi, Ferdinando Boero
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10.1371/journal.pone.0074413

PLOS ONE Impacts of Temperature on Primary Productivity and Respiration in Naturally Structured Macroalgal Assemblages
September 13, 2013 Leigh Tait, David Schiel
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10.1371/journal.pone.0066475

PLOS ONE Climate Change and Eutrophication Induced Shifts in Northern Summer Plankton Communities
June 12, 2013 Sanna Suikkanen, Silvia Pulina, Jonna Engström-Öst, Maiju Lehtiniemi, Sirpa Lehtinen, Andreas Brutemark
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10.1371/journal.pone.0060568

PLOS ONE Climate Change Winners: Receding Ice Fields Facilitate Colony Expansion and Altered Dynamics in an Adélie Penguin Metapopulation
April 3, 2013 Michelle LaRue, David Ainley, Matthew Swanson, Katie Dugger, Phil Lyver, Kerry Barton, Grant Ballard
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10.1371/journal.pone.0050685

PLOS ONE Coral Thermal Tolerance: Tuning Gene Expression to Resist Thermal Stress
November 30, 2012 Anthony Bellantuono, Camila Granados-Cifuentes, David Miller, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty
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10.1371/journal.pone.0033353

PLOS ONE Contrasting Patterns of Coral Bleaching Susceptibility in 2010 Suggest an Adaptive Response to Thermal Stress
March 9, 2012 James Guest, Andrew Baird, Jeffrey Maynard, Efin Muttaqin, Alasdair Edwards, Stuart Campbell, Katie Yewdall, Yang Amri Affendi, Loke Ming Chou

Climate Impacts: Animals

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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002592

PLOS Biology Bigger Is Fitter? Quantitative Genetic Decomposition of Selection Reveals an Adaptive Evolutionary Decline of Body Mass in a Wild Rodent Population
January 26, 2017 Timothée Bonnet, Peter Wandeler, Glauco Camenisch, Erik Postma
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10.1371/journal.pone.0165073

PLOS ONE Assessing Mammal Exposure to Climate Change in the Brazilian Amazon
November 9, 2016 Bruno R. Ribeiro, Lilian P. Sales, Paulo De Marco Jr., Rafael Loyola
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10.1371/journal.pone.0152636

PLOS ONE Range Expansion of Moose in Arctic Alaska Linked to Warming and Increased Shrub Habitat
April 13, 2016 Ken D. Tape, David D. Gustine, Roger W. Ruess, Layne G. Adams, Jason A. Clark
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10.1371/journal.pone.0142213

PLOS ONE Increased Land Use by Chukchi Sea Polar Bears in Relation to Changing Sea Ice Conditions
November 18, 2015 Karyn D. Rode, Ryan R. Wilson, Eric V. Regehr, Michelle St. Martin, David C. Douglas, Jay Olson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0135350

PLOS ONE Conservation Status of North American Birds in the Face of Future Climate Change
September 2, 2015 Gary M. Langham, Justin G. Schuetz, Trisha Distler, Candan U. Soykan, Chad Wilsey
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10.1371/journal.pone.0098351

PLOS ONE Individualistic Population Responses of Five Frog Species in Two Changing Tropical Environments over Time
May 30, 2014 Mason Ryan, Michael Fuller, Norman Scott, Joseph Cook, Steven Poe, Beatriz Willink, Gerardo Chaves, Federico Bolaños
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10.1371/journal.pone.0085602

PLOS ONE Climate Change Increases Reproductive Failure in Magellanic Penguins
January 29, 2014 Dee Boersma, Ginger Rebstock
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10.1371/journal.pone.0087245

PLOS ONE Signals of Climate Change in Butterfly Communities in a Mediterranean Protected Area
January 29, 2014 Konstantina Zografou, Vassiliki Kati, Andrea Grill, Robert Wilson, Elli Tzirkalli, Lazaros Pamperis, John Halley
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10.1371/journal.pone.0087291

PLOS ONE Designing Optimized Multi-Species Monitoring Networks to Detect Range Shifts Driven by Climate Change: A Case Study with Bats in the North of Portugal
January 27, 2014 Francisco Amorim, Sílvia Carvalho, João Honrado, Hugo Rebelo
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10.1371/journal.pone.0082490

PLOS ONE Plants, Birds and Butterflies: Short-Term Responses of Species Communities to Climate Warming Vary by Taxon and with Altitude
January 8, 2014 Tobias Roth, Matthias Plattner, Valentin Amrhein
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10.1371/journal.pone.0067065

PLOS ONE Long-Term Climate Sensitivity of Grazer Performance: A Cross-Site Study
June 20, 2013 Joseph Craine
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10.1371/journal.pone.0065408

PLOS ONE Citizen Science Reveals an Extensive Shift in the Winter Distribution of Migratory Western Grebes
June 19, 2013 Scott Wilson, Eric Anderson, Amy Wilson, Douglas Bertram, Peter Arcese
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001517

PLOS Biology The Case of the Missing Mechanism: How Does Temperature Influence Seasonal Timing in Endotherms?
April 2, 2013 Samuel Caro, Sonja Schaper, Roelof Hut, Gregory Ball, Marcel Visser

Ecosystems and Human Health

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10.1371/journal.pone.0163863

PLOS ONE Climate Change Influences on the Global Potential Distribution of the Mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus, Vector of West Nile Virus and Lymphatic Filariasis
October 3, 2016 Abdallah M. Samy, Arwa H. Elaagip, Mohamed A. Kenawy, Constância F. J. Ayres, A. Townsend Peterson, Doaa E. Soliman
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10.1371/journal.pone.0105480

PLOS ONE Urbanisation at Multiple Scales Is Associated with Larger Size and Higher Fecundity of an Orb-Weaving Spider
August 20, 2014 Elizabeth Lowe, Shawn Wilder, Dieter Hochuli
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10.1371/journal.pntd.0003210

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Sand Fly Fluctuations Are Associated with El Niño in Panamá
October 2, 2014 Luis Fernando Chaves, Jose Calzada, Anayansi Valderrama, Azael Saldaña
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10.1371/journal.pone.0066071

PLOS ONE Pathogen-Host Associations and Predicted Range Shifts of Human Monkeypox in Response to Climate Change in Central Africa
July 31, 2013 Henri Thomassen, Trevon Fuller, Salvi Asefi-Najafabady, Julia Shiplacoff, Prime Mulembakani, Seth Blumberg, Sara Johnston, Neville Kisalu, Timothée Kinkela, Joseph Fair, Nathan Wolfe, Robert Shongo, Matthew LeBreton, Hermann Meyer, Linda Wright, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Wolfgang Buermann, Emile Okitolonda, Lisa Hensley, James Lloyd-Smith, Thomas Smith, Anne Rimoin
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10.1371/journal.pone.0060874

PLOS ONE Climate Change and Range Expansion of the Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus) in Northeastern USA: Implications for Public Health Practitioners
April 2, 2013 ILIA ROCHLIN, Dominick Ninivaggi, Michael Hutchinson, Ary Farajollahi
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10.1371/journal.pone.0034076

PLOS ONE Changes to Airborne Pollen Counts across Europe
April 13, 2012 Chiara Ziello, Tim Sparks, Nicole Estrella, Jordina Belmonte, Karl Bergmann, Edith Bucher, Maria Antonia Brighetti, Athanasios Damialis, Monique Detandt, Carmen Galán, Regula Gehrig, Lukasz Grewling, Adela Gutiérrez Bustillo, Margrét Hallsdóttir, Marie-Claire Kockhans-Bieda, Concepción De Linares, Dorota Myszkowska, Anna Pàldy, Adriana Sánchez, Matthew Smith, Michel Thibaudon, Alessandro Travaglini, Agnieszka Uruska, Rosa Valencia-Barrera, Despoina Vokou, Reinhard Wachter, Letty de Weger, Annette Menzel

Learning from the Past

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PLOS ONE How Climate Change Beliefs among U.S. Teachers Do and Do Not Translate to Students
September 7, 2016 Kathryn T. Stevenson, M. Nils Peterson, Amy Bradshaw
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10.1371/journal.pone.0167983

PLOS ONE Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science
December 15, 2016 Ann Hillier, Ryan P. Kelly, Terrie Klinger
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10.1371/journal.pone.0115246

PLOS ONE Paleoceanographic Insights on Recent Oxygen Minimum Zone Expansion: Lessons for Modern Oceanography
January 28, 2015 Sarah E. Moffitt, Russell A. Moffitt, Wilson Sauthoff, Catherine V. Davis, Kathryn Hewett, Tessa M. Hill
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10.1371/journal.pone.0114282

PLOS ONE Western Spruce Budworm Outbreaks Did Not Increase Fire Risk over the Last Three Centuries: A Dendrochronological Analysis of Inter-Disturbance Synergism
December 19, 2014 Aquila Flower, Daniel Gavin, Emily Heyerdahl, Russel Parsons, Gregory Cohn
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001949

PLOS Biology Plant Ecological Strategies Shift Across the Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary
September 16, 2014 Benjamin Blonder, Dana Royer, Kirk Johnson, Ian Miller, Brian Enquist
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10.1371/journal.pone.0106651

PLOS ONE The Impact of 850,000 Years of Climate Changes on the Structure and Dynamics of Mammal Food Webs
September 10, 2014 Hedvig Nenzen, Sara Varela, Daniel Montoya
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10.1371/journal.pone.0102090

PLOS ONE Vulnerability of Mediterranean Ecosystems to Long-Term Changes along the Coast of Israel
July 8, 2014 David Kaniewski, Elise Van Campo, Christophe Morhange, Joël Guiot, Dov Zviely, Sabine Le Burel, Thierry Otto, Michal Artzy
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10.1371/journal.pone.0071797

PLOS ONE Tree Migration-Rates: Narrowing the Gap between Inferred Post-Glacial Rates and Projected Rates
August 26, 2013 Angelica Feurdean, Shonil Bhagwat, Katherine Willis, H. John Birks, Heike Lischke, Thomas Hickler
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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000554

PLOS Genetics Rapid Response of a Marine Mammal Species to Holocene Climate and Habitat Change
July 10, 2009 Mark de Bruyn, Brenda L. Hall, Lucas F. Chauke, Carlo Baroni, Paul L. Koch, A. Rus Hoelzel

Management and Conservation

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10.1371/journal.pbio.2002634

PLOS Biology AEDT: A new concept for ecological dynamics in the ever-changing world
May 30, 2017 Peter Chesson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0165797

PLOS ONE The Impacts of Dietary Change on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Land Use, Water Use, and Health: A Systematic Review
November 3, 2016 Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Rosemary Green, Edward J. M. Joy, Pete Smith, Andy Haines
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Walden & Lindborg

PLOS Ecology Community Related blog: Restoring what was lost: semi-natural grassland habitat restoration in Sweden
May 31, 2016 Alexandra (Sasha) Wright
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10.1371/journal.pone.0155836

PLOS ONE Long Term Positive Effect of Grassland Restoration on Plant Diversity – Success or Not?
May 19, 2016 Emelie Waldén, Regina Lindborg
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10.1371/journal.pone.0124014

PLOS ONE Noah’s Ark Conservation Will Not Preserve Threatened Ecological Communities under Climate Change
April 16, 2015 Rebecca Harris, Oberon Carter, Louise Gilfedder, Luciana Porfirio, Greg Lee, Nathan Bindoff
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10.1371/journal.pone.0121143

PLOS ONE Managed Bumblebees Outperform Honeybees in Increasing Peach Fruit Set in China: Different Limiting Processes with Different Pollinators
March 23, 2015 Hong Zhang, Jiaxing Huang, Paul H. Williams, Bernard E. Vaissière, Zhiyong Zhou, Qinbao Gai, Jie Dong, Jiandong An
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10.1371/journal.pone.0121137

PLOS ONE Ecological and Geographical Analysis of the Distribution of the Mountain Tapir (Tapirus pinchaque) in Ecuador: Importance of Protected Areas in Future Scenarios of Global Warming
March 23, 2015 H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade, David Prieto-Torres, Ignacio Gómez-Lora, Diego Lizcano
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10.1371/journal.pone.0110742

PLOS ONE Demographic Outcomes and Ecosystem Implications of Giant Tortoise Reintroduction to Española Island, Galapagos
October 28, 2014 James Gibbs, Elizabeth Hunter, Kevin Shoemaker, Washington Tapia, Linda Cayot
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10.1371/journal.pone.0086487

PLOS ONE Land Use Compounds Habitat Losses under Projected Climate Change in a Threatened California Ecosystem
January 21, 2014 Erin Riordan, Philip Rundel
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10.1371/journal.pone.0075814

PLOS ONE How to Decide Whether to Move Species Threatened by Climate Change
October 16, 2013 Tracy Rout, Eve McDonald-Madden, Tara Martin, Nicola Mitchell, Hugh Possingham, Doug Armstrong

Interactions and Communities

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PLOS ONE Plant species dispersed by Galapagos tortoises surf the wave of habitat suitability under anthropogenic climate change
July 20, 2017 Diego Ellis-Soto, Stephen Blake, Alaaeldin Soultan, Anne Guézou, Fredy Cabrera, Stefan Lötters
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10.1371/journal.pone.0140275

PLOS ONE Extreme Environments Facilitate Hybrid Superiority – The Story of a Successful Daphnia galeata × longispina Hybrid Clone
October 8, 2015 Johanna Griebel, Sabine Gießler, Monika Poxleitner, Amanda Navas Faria, Mingbo Yin, Justyna Wolinska
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10.1371/journal.pone.0119276

PLOS ONE Effect of Landscape Pattern on Insect Species Density within Urban Green Spaces in Beijing, China
March 20, 2015 Zhimin Su, Xiaoma Li, Weiqi Zhou, Zhiyun Ouyang
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10.1371/journal.pone.0082886

PLOS ONE Assessing the Effects of Climate on Host-Parasite Interactions: A Comparative Study of European Birds and Their Parasites
December 31, 2013 Anders Møller, Santiago Merino, Juan José Soler, Anton Antonov, Elisa Badás, Miguel Calero-Torralbo, Florentino de Lope, Tapio Eeva, Jordi Figuerola, Einar Flensted-Jensen, Laszlo Z. Garamszegi, Sonia González-Braojos, Helga Gwinner, Sveinn Hanssen, Dieter Heylen, Petteri Ilmonen, Kurt Klarborg, Erkki Korpimäki, Javier Martinez, Josue Martinez-de la Puente, Alfonso Marzal, Erik Matthysen, Piotr Matyjasiak, Mercedes Molina-Morales, Juan Moreno, Timothy Mousseau, Jan Nielsen, Péter Pap, Juan Rivero-de Aguilar, Peter Shurulinkov, Tore Slagsvold, Tibor Szép, Eszter Szöllősiw, Janos Török, Radovan Vaclav, Francisco Valera, Nadia Ziane
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001705

PLOS Biology Water Stress Strengthens Mutualism Among Ants, Trees, and Scale Insects
November 5, 2013 Elizabeth Pringle, Erol Akçay, Ted Raab, Rodolfo Dirzo, Deborah Gordon
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001685

PLOS Biology Coevolution and the Effects of Climate Change on Interacting Species
October 22, 2013 Tobin Northfield, Anthony Ives
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1001569

PLOS Biology Rare Species Support Vulnerable Functions in High-Diversity Ecosystems
May 28, 2013 David Mouillot, David Bellwood, Christopher Baraloto, Jerome Chave, Rene Galzin, Mireille Harmelin-Vivien, Michel Kulbicki, Sebastien Lavergne, Sandra Lavorel, Nicolas Mouquet, C.E. Timothy Paine, Julien Renaud, Wilfried Thuiller

2015-2016 Collection Update

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William Warby. Flickr.com. Thomas Vignaud. PLOS Biology. 2011. 9(4). Colombi et al. PLOS ONE. 2013. Soto-Azat et al. PLOS ONE. 2013.

PLOS Ecology Community Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection 2015-2016
August 1, 2016 Jeff Atkins

Associated Collection Blogs

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J. Atkins

PLOS Ecology Community Playing with matches: Incorporating human activity into wildfire forecasting
May 12, 2016 Jeff Atkins
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Wilson & Jetz (2016)

PLOS Ecology Community Remotely-sensed cloud cover predicts biodiversity & climate change vulnerability
April 15, 2016 Alexandra (Sasha) Wright
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PLOS Collections Blog The 2015 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection
August 19, 2015 Ben Bond-Lamberty
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EveryONE The 2014 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection
August 8, 2014 Ben Bond-Lamberty
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