TY - JOUR
T1 - Climate change and the ecology and evolution of Arctic vertebrates
AU - Gilg, Olivier
AU - Kovacs, Kit M.
AU - Aars, Jon
AU - Fort, Jérôme
AU - Gauthier, Gilles
AU - Grémillet, David
AU - Ims, Rolf A.
AU - Meltofte, Hans
AU - Moreau, Jérôme
AU - Post, Eric
AU - Schmidt, Niels Martin
AU - Yannic, Glenn
AU - Bollache, Loïc
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements — The authors wish to thank Dr J. Hutton, Department of Statistics and Computational Mathematics, and Mr T. Williams, Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Liverpool, for their advice on statistical analysis. This investigation was supported by Mersey Regional Health Authority (Research Scheme No. 531).
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - Climate change is taking place more rapidly and severely in the Arctic than anywhere on the globe, exposing Arctic vertebrates to a host of impacts. Changes in the cryosphere dominate the physical changes that already affect these animals, but increasing air temperatures, changes in precipitation, and ocean acidification will also affect Arctic ecosystems in the future. Adaptation via natural selection is problematic in such a rapidly changing environment. Adjustment via phenotypic plasticity is therefore likely to dominate Arctic vertebrate responses in the short term, and many such adjustments have already been documented. Changes in phenology and range will occur for most species but will only partly mitigate climate change impacts, which are particularly difficult to forecast due to the many interactions within and between trophic levels. Even though Arctic species richness is increasing via immigration from the South, many Arctic vertebrates are expected to become increasingly threatened during this century.
AB - Climate change is taking place more rapidly and severely in the Arctic than anywhere on the globe, exposing Arctic vertebrates to a host of impacts. Changes in the cryosphere dominate the physical changes that already affect these animals, but increasing air temperatures, changes in precipitation, and ocean acidification will also affect Arctic ecosystems in the future. Adaptation via natural selection is problematic in such a rapidly changing environment. Adjustment via phenotypic plasticity is therefore likely to dominate Arctic vertebrate responses in the short term, and many such adjustments have already been documented. Changes in phenology and range will occur for most species but will only partly mitigate climate change impacts, which are particularly difficult to forecast due to the many interactions within and between trophic levels. Even though Arctic species richness is increasing via immigration from the South, many Arctic vertebrates are expected to become increasingly threatened during this century.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06412.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06412.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 22329928
AN - SCOPUS:84857481095
SN - 0077-8923
VL - 1249
SP - 166
EP - 190
JO - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
JF - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
IS - 1
ER -