Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

Gretta T. Pecl; Miguel Bastos; Johann D. Bell; Julia L. Blanchard; Timothy C. Bonebrake; I-Ching Chen; Timothy D. Clark; Robert K. Colwell; Finn Danielsen; Birgitta Evengård; Lorena Falconi; Simon Ferrier; Stewart Frusher; Raquel A. Garcia; Roger B. Griffis; Alistair J. Hobday; Charlene Janion-Scheepers; Marta A. Jarzyna; Sarah Jennings; Jonathan Lenoir; Hlif I. Linnetved; Victoria Y. Martin; Phillipa C. McCormack; Jan McDonald; Nicola J. Mitchell; Tero Mustonen; John M. Pandolfi; Nathalie Pettorelli; Ekaterina Popova; Sharon A. Robinson; Brett R. Scheffers; Justine D. Shaw; Cascade J. B. Sorte; Jan M. Strugnell; Jennifer M. Sunday; Mao Ning Tuanmu; Adriana Vergés; Cecilia Villanueva; Thomas Wernberg; Erik Wapstra; Stephen E. Williams

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Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

Gretta T. Pecl, Miguel Bastos, Johann D. Bell, Julia L. Blanchard, Timothy C. Bonebrake, I-Ching Chen, Timothy D. Clark, Robert K. Colwell, Finn Danielsen, Birgitta Evengård, Lorena Falconi, Simon Ferrier, Stewart Frusher, Raquel A. Garcia, Roger B. Griffis, Alistair J. Hobday, Charlene Janion-Scheepers, Marta A. Jarzyna, Sarah Jennings, Jonathan LenoirHlif I. Linnetved, Victoria Y. Martin, Phillipa C. McCormack, Jan McDonald, Nicola J. Mitchell, Tero Mustonen, John M. Pandolfi, Nathalie Pettorelli, Ekaterina Popova, Sharon A. Robinson, Brett R. Scheffers, Justine D. Shaw, Cascade J. B. Sorte, Jan M. Strugnell, Jennifer M. Sunday, Mao Ning Tuanmu, Adriana Vergés, Cecilia Villanueva, Thomas Wernberg, Erik Wapstra, Stephen E. Williams

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Abstract

Distributions of Earth’s species are changing at accelerating rates, increasingly driven by humanmediated climate change. Such changes are already altering the composition of ecological communities, but beyond conservation of natural systems, how and why does this matter? We review evidence that climate-driven species redistribution at regional to global scales affects ecosystem functioning, human well-being, and the dynamics of climate change itself. Production of natural resources required for food security, patterns of disease transmission, and processes of carbon sequestration are all altered by changes in species distribution. Consideration of these effects of biodiversity redistribution is critical yet lacking in most mitigation and adaptation strategies, including the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Original language	English
Article number	eaai9214
Journal	Science
Volume	355
Issue number	6332
Number of pages	9
ISSN	0036-8075
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aai9214
Publication status	Published - 31 Mar 2017

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Pecl, G. T., Bastos, M., Bell, J. D., Blanchard, J. L., Bonebrake, T. C., Chen, I-C., Clark, T. D., Colwell, R. K., Danielsen, F., Evengård, B., Falconi, L., Ferrier, S., Frusher, S., Garcia, R. A., Griffis, R. B., Hobday, A. J., Janion-Scheepers, C., Jarzyna, M. A., Jennings, S., ... Williams, S. E. (2017). Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being. Science, 355(6332), [eaai9214]. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aai9214

Pecl, GT, Bastos, M, Bell, JD, Blanchard, JL, Bonebrake, TC, Chen, I-C, Clark, TD, Colwell, RK, Danielsen, F, Evengård, B, Falconi, L, Ferrier, S, Frusher, S, Garcia, RA, Griffis, RB, Hobday, AJ, Janion-Scheepers, C, Jarzyna, MA, Jennings, S, Lenoir, J, Linnetved, HI, Martin, VY, McCormack, PC, McDonald, J, Mitchell, NJ, Mustonen, T, Pandolfi, JM, Pettorelli, N, Popova, E, Robinson, SA, Scheffers, BR, Shaw, JD, Sorte, CJB, Strugnell, JM, Sunday, JM, Tuanmu, MN, Vergés, A, Villanueva, C, Wernberg, T, Wapstra, E & Williams, SE 2017, 'Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being', Science, vol. 355, no. 6332, eaai9214. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aai9214

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