Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystems
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2024 | Viewed by 152
Special Issue Editors
2. Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yanta District, Xi'an 710065, China
Interests: climate change; ecosystem; biogeography; geomorphology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ecosystems are complex organizations interacting with plants, animals, and environmental factors. Humans are now a very important component in most ecosystem structures and functions. The greatest threats to natural systems are climate change and human impacts. These have been true for millions of years (climate) and millennia and recent centuries (humans), and now climate and humans increasingly overlap. To understand these roles, there is a need to better define the role of natural processes such as climate change on ecosystems. Here, we invite contributions that focus on how ecosystems responded to climate changes in the past or where it is suspected that climate has forced humans to adapt to new climate settings and how they interacted with ecosystems, for example, through changing fire regimes and ecosystem exploitation. We wish to attract contributions that rely on a range of multiproxy studies that study past ecosystems, or by using models with well-constrained boundary conditions that aim to predict the future trajectories of ecosystems.
Prof. Dr. John Dodson
Dr. Limi Mao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- past climates and ecosystem function
- ecosystem changes in relation to climate
- the future of ecosystems in relation to climate change
- case studies on the role of climate and human factors in ecosystem changes
- the relative role of natural and anthropogenic forces in ecosystem changes
