Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches
Antão, L. H., Weigel, B., Strona, G., Hällfors, M., Kaarlejärvi, E., Dallas, T., Opedal, Ø. H., Heliölä, J., Henttonen, H., Huitu, O., Korpimäki, E., Kuussaari, M., Lehikoinen, A., Leinonen, R., Lindén, A., Merilä, P., Pietiäinen, H., Pöyry, J., Salemaa, M., . . . Laine, A.-L. (2022). Climate change reshuffles northern species within their niches. Nature Climate Change, 12(6), 587-592. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01381-x
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Climate change is a pervasive threat to biodiversity. While range shifts are a known consequence of climate warming contributing to regional community change, less is known about how species’ positions shift within their climatic niches. Furthermore, whether the relative importance of different climatic variables prompting such shifts varies with changing climate remains unclear. Here we analysed four decades of data for 1,478 species of birds, mammals, butterflies, moths, plants and phytoplankton along a 1,200 km high latitudinal gradient. The relative importance of climatic drivers varied non-uniformly with progressing climate change. While species turnover among decades was limited, the relative position of species within their climatic niche shifted substantially. A greater proportion of species responded to climatic change at higher latitudes, where changes were stronger. These diverging climate imprints restructure a full biome, making it difficult to generalize biodiversity responses and raising concerns about ecosystem integrity in the face of accelerating climate change.
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The work was funded by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation (L.H.A., G.S., M.H., E.K., T.D., Ø.H.O., O.O., M. Saastamoinen, J.V., T.R. and A.-L.L.); by the Strategic Research Council of the Academy of Finland (grant 312650 to the BlueAdapt consortium to B.W.); by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ERC-synergy grant 856506—LIFEPLAN to O.O. and T.R.); by the Academy of Finland (grant 323527 to A. Lehikoinen; grant 322266 to T.R.; grant 317255 to J.V.; grant 309581 to O.O.; grant 311229 to K.V.; grant 340280 to L.H.A.); by the National Science Foundation (grant NSF-DEB-2017826 to T.D.); and by the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence Funding Scheme (grant 223257 to O.O.). The Ministry of the Environment has supported annual line transect surveys. The Finnish Moth Monitoring scheme (Nocturna) and the Butterfly Monitoring Scheme in Finnish Agricultural Landscapes (Diurna) were supported by the Ministry of the Environment (Finland). ...License
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