Climate-change ecology articles from across Nature Portfolio

As an alternative to monetary estimates, this study expresses the costs of climate change in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’, which reflects the historically highly conserved distribution of human population density relative to mean annual temperature.

Global warming accelerated canopy senescence in July, but slowed it in late summer and early fall in the Northern Hemisphere, according to an analysis of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index satellite retrievals over 1982–2018

Using geographical data for approximately 36,000 marine and terrestrial species and climate projections to 2100, the authors show that the area of each species’ geographical range at risk of thermal exposure will expand abruptly, highlighting the urgency of mitigation and adaptation actions.

Tephra-induced ecosystem changes at Lake Van, Turkey, are distinct from those of climate change in terms of fire activity, aquatic ecology and ecosystem recovery time, according to a multi-proxy analysis of varve deposits from the period 340,000 to 32,000 years ago