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An ecological 'footprint' of climate change

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Summary, in English

Recently, there has been increasing evidence of species' range shifts due to changes in climate. Whereas most of these shifts relate ground truth biogeographic data to a general warming trend in regional or global climate data, we here present a reanalysis of both biogeographic and bioclimatic data of equal spatio-temporal resolution, covering a time span of more than 50 years. Our results reveal a coherent and synchronous shift in both species' distribution and climate. They show not only a shift in the northern margin of a species, which is in concert with gradually increasing winter temperatures in the area, they also confirm the simulated species' distribution changes expected from a bioclimatic model under the recent, relatively moderate climate change.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

1427-1432

Publication/Series

Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences

Volume

272

Issue

1571

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Royal Society Publishing

Topic

  • Physical Geography

Keywords

  • evergreen
  • bioclimatic model
  • bioindicator
  • range shift
  • global warming
  • Ilex aquifolium
  • broad-leaved species

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1471-2954