Abstract
Climate change biology is seeing a wave of new contributions, which are reviewed herein. Contributions treat shifts in phenology and distribution, and both document past and forecast future effects. However, many of the current wave of contributions are observational and correlational, and few are experimental in nature, and too often a conceptual framework in which to contextualize the results is lacking. An additional gap is the lack of effective cross-linking among areas of research, for example, connection of sea-level rise and climate change implications for distributions of species, or evolutionary adaptation studies with distributional shift studies. Although numerous important contributions have emerged in recent years, synthesis of this phenomenon and its consequences has not yet been achieved.
Keywords
climate change, climatic changes, biology literature, phenology
Disciplines
Biology | Climate | Environmental Monitoring
Original Citation
Peterson, A. T., Menon, S., & Li, X. (2010). Recent advances in the climate change biology literature: Describing the whole elephant. WIREs Climate Change, 1(4), 548–555. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.59
ScholarWorks Citation
Peterson, A. Townsend; Menon, Shaily; and Li, Xingong, "Recent Advances in the Climate Change Biology Literature: Describing the Whole Elephant" (2010). Peer Reviewed Publications. 30.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/biopeerpubs/30
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