About Climate Change and Ecological Niches

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Climate change poses an ever-increasing threat to global biodiversity. Species are well adapted to their environments, however, under the effects of rapidly rising temperatures and changing weather patterns at unprecedented rates, their sensitive ecological niches are under threat of mismatch. Climate change is a key driver of habitat shifts, and this mismatch of organisms to their environment poses a growing threat to species health and fitness.

Ecological niche modelling is used to predict the complicated future distributions and habitat shifts of organisms across spatial and temporal scales. Collating this information across species would create a clearer image of the effects of climate change on species’ habitat shifts, community structure and extinction risk.

This collection aims to create a space of shared research, data and open discussion surrounding the influence of climate change on species ecological niches and all its subsequent impacts.

Topics to include (but are not limited to):

• Global change ecology
• Species distribution across spatial and temporal scales
• Extinction risk
• Molecular evolution
• Land-use change
• Invasive species
• Consequences of community changes on biodiversity and ecosystem function
• Conservation status and strategies in the context of habitat shifts

Keywords: ecological niche modelling; extinction; invasive species; community ecology; land-use change; conservation; habitat shifts; ecological niche

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This collection is part of the Ecology and Global Change Gateway.

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