A. Townsend Peterson

Abstract: In addition to the mounting empirical data on direct implications of climate change for natural and human systems, evidence is increasing for indirect climate change phenomena such as sea-level rise. Rising sea levels and associated marine intrusion into terrestria.htm"l environments are predicted to be among the most serious eventual consequences of climate change. The many complex and interacting factors affecting sea levels create considerable uncertainty in sea-level rise projections: conservative estimates are on the order of 0.5-1.0 m globally, while other estimates are much higher, approaching 6m. Marine intrusion associated with 1-6 m sea-level rise will impact species and habitats in coastal ecosystems severely. Examining areas most vulnerable to such impacts may allow design of appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies. We present an overview of potential effects of 1m and 6m sea level rise for coastal conservation areas in the Indian Subcontinent. In particular, we examine the projected magnitude of areal losses in relevant biogeographic zones, ecoregions, protected areas (PAs) and important bird areas (IBAs). In addition, we provide a more detailed and quantitative analysis of likely effects of marine intrusion on 22 coastal PAs and IBAs that provide critical habitat for birds in the form of breeding areas, migratory stopover sites and overwintering habitats. Several coastal PAs and IBAs are predicted to experience higher than 50% areal losses to marine intrusion. We explore consequences of such inundation levels for species and habitats in these areas.

TL;DR: E ecological niche modeling was used to assess the potential geographic distributions of these two medically important vector species in North America under current condition and then transfer those models to the future under different future climate scenarios with special interest in highlighting new potential expansion areas.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used ecological niche modeling to characterize the niches of Dermacentor reticulatus and described their potential distributional patterns under both current and future climate conditions, highlighting geographic distributional shifts that may be of public health importance.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model for reproducibility is proposed to specify its main attributes and properties, along with a framework that allows for computational experiments to be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

TL;DR: It is found that most populations experience sub-optimal conditions in at least one environmental dimension and most populations are constrained by minimum temperature during the flowering/fruiting stage of an epiphytic plant, Spanish Moss.