Evaluation of animal and plant diversity suggests Greenland’s thaw hastens the biodiversity crisis
Rising temperatures can lead to the occurrence of a large-scale climatic event, such as the melting of Greenland ice sheet, weakening the AMOC and further increasing dissimilarities between current and future climate. The impacts of such an event are still poorly assessed. Here, we evaluate those im...
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ftoskarbordeaux:oai:oskar-bordeaux.fr:20.500.12278/170351 2023-05-15T16:26:43+02:00 Evaluation of animal and plant diversity suggests Greenland’s thaw hastens the biodiversity crisis URETA, Carolina RAMIREZ-BARAHONA, Santiago CALDERON-BUSTAMANTE, Oscar CRUZ-SANTIAGO, Pedro GAY-GARCIA, Carlos SWINGEDOUW, Didier DEFRANCE, Dimitri CUERVO-ROBAYO, Angela P. 2022-09-17 https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/170351 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12278/170351 https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03943-3 EN eng 2399-3642 https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/170351 doi:10.1038/s42003-022-03943-3 Attribution 3.0 United States open http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ Pas de Licence CC CC-BY Climate-change ecology Ecological modelling Sciences de l'environnement Article de revue 2022 ftoskarbordeaux https://doi.org/20.500.12278/170351 https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03943-3 2022-11-29T23:30:28Z Rising temperatures can lead to the occurrence of a large-scale climatic event, such as the melting of Greenland ice sheet, weakening the AMOC and further increasing dissimilarities between current and future climate. The impacts of such an event are still poorly assessed. Here, we evaluate those impacts across megadiverse countries on 21,146 species of tetrapods and vascular plants using the pessimistic climate change scenario (RCP 8.5) and four different scenarios of Greenland’s ice sheet melting. We show that RCP 8.5 emission scenario would lead to a widespread reduction in species’ geographic ranges (28–48%), which is projected to be magnified (58–99%) with any added contribution from the melting of Greenland. Also, declines in the potential geographical extent of species hotspots (12–89%) and alterations of species composition (19–91%) will be intensified. These results imply that the influence of a strong and rapid Greenland ice sheet melting, resulting in a large AMOC weakening, can lead to a faster collapse of biodiversity across the globe. Other/Unknown Material Greenland Ice Sheet OSKAR Bordeaux (Open Science Knowledge ARchive) Greenland Communications Biology 5 1 |
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Climate-change ecology Ecological modelling Sciences de l'environnement URETA, Carolina RAMIREZ-BARAHONA, Santiago CALDERON-BUSTAMANTE, Oscar CRUZ-SANTIAGO, Pedro GAY-GARCIA, Carlos SWINGEDOUW, Didier DEFRANCE, Dimitri CUERVO-ROBAYO, Angela P. Evaluation of animal and plant diversity suggests Greenland’s thaw hastens the biodiversity crisis |
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Rising temperatures can lead to the occurrence of a large-scale climatic event, such as the melting of Greenland ice sheet, weakening the AMOC and further increasing dissimilarities between current and future climate. The impacts of such an event are still poorly assessed. Here, we evaluate those impacts across megadiverse countries on 21,146 species of tetrapods and vascular plants using the pessimistic climate change scenario (RCP 8.5) and four different scenarios of Greenland’s ice sheet melting. We show that RCP 8.5 emission scenario would lead to a widespread reduction in species’ geographic ranges (28–48%), which is projected to be magnified (58–99%) with any added contribution from the melting of Greenland. Also, declines in the potential geographical extent of species hotspots (12–89%) and alterations of species composition (19–91%) will be intensified. These results imply that the influence of a strong and rapid Greenland ice sheet melting, resulting in a large AMOC weakening, can lead to a faster collapse of biodiversity across the globe. |
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URETA, Carolina RAMIREZ-BARAHONA, Santiago CALDERON-BUSTAMANTE, Oscar CRUZ-SANTIAGO, Pedro GAY-GARCIA, Carlos SWINGEDOUW, Didier DEFRANCE, Dimitri CUERVO-ROBAYO, Angela P. |
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URETA, Carolina RAMIREZ-BARAHONA, Santiago CALDERON-BUSTAMANTE, Oscar CRUZ-SANTIAGO, Pedro GAY-GARCIA, Carlos SWINGEDOUW, Didier DEFRANCE, Dimitri CUERVO-ROBAYO, Angela P. |
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Evaluation of animal and plant diversity suggests Greenland’s thaw hastens the biodiversity crisis |
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Evaluation of animal and plant diversity suggests Greenland’s thaw hastens the biodiversity crisis |
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