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Biodiversity and Climate Extremes: Known Interactions and Research Gaps
- Source :
- Earth's Future, Vol 12, Iss 6, Pp n/a-n/a (2024)
- Publication Year :
- 2024
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2024.
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Abstract
- Abstract Climate extremes are on the rise. Impacts of extreme climate and weather events on ecosystem services and ultimately human well‐being can be partially attenuated by the organismic, structural, and functional diversity of the affected land surface. However, the ongoing transformation of terrestrial ecosystems through intensified exploitation and management may put this buffering capacity at risk. Here, we summarize the evidence that reductions in biodiversity can destabilize the functioning of ecosystems facing climate extremes. We then explore if impaired ecosystem functioning could, in turn, exacerbate climate extremes. We argue that only a comprehensive approach, incorporating both ecological and hydrometeorological perspectives, enables us to understand and predict the entire feedback system between altered biodiversity and climate extremes. This ambition, however, requires a reformulation of current research priorities to emphasize the bidirectional effects that link ecology and atmospheric processes.
- Subjects :
- biodiversity
climate extremes
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Ecology
QH540-549.5
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23284277
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Earth's Future
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.7574663b126941bc8431c494ab4f4cb8
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003963