Nature and Farming: News links for April 2019

Ecosystems threatened: The Sixth Great Extinction

Sierra Zoos Gone Wild—With Hope

CNN Climate change will make a walk in the woods a much rarer pleasure

The Conversation Anthropocene doesn’t exist and species of the future will not recognise it

Inside Climate News Iconic Forests Reaching Climate Tipping Points in American West, Study Finds

EOS Cherry Blossoms’ Peak Bloom Is an Indicator of Climate Change

Guardian Adders now active all year with warmer UK weather

Yale In nature, premature springs are creating new winners and losers

Guardian Arctic alpine plants in UK face climate extinction

Scientific American Coral Reefugees: Certain Corals Could “Outrun” Climate Change

Reuters More marine heat waves threaten fish and corals: study

Scotsman Disease threat to Scotland’s ancient pine forests due to climate change, report warns

Independent Rising CO2 levels destroying African savannah, scientists warn

Guardian Out of sight, out of luck: the hidden victims of Australia’s deadly heatwaves

Inside Climate News Iconic Forests Reaching Climate Tipping Points in American West, Study Finds

Academic articles about ecosystems

BES/People and Nature Effects of climatically shifting species distributions on biocultural relationships

Wiley/Ecology Letters Phenological mismatch with trees reduces wildflower carbon budgets

Wiley/Global Change Biology Evaluating ecosystem effects of climate change on tropical island streams using high spatial and temporal resolution sampling regimes

Wiley/Global Change Biology Four decades of plant community change along a continental gradient of warming

Wiley/Global Change Biology Geographical adaptation prevails over species‐specific determinism in trees’ vulnerability to climate change at Mediterranean rear‐edge forests

Wiley/Global Change Biology Structural and functional responses of invertebrate communities to climate change and flow regulation in alpine catchments

Wiley/Global Change Biology Whales in warming water: Assessing breeding habitat diversity and adaptability in Oceania's changing climate

Wiley/Global Change Biology Climate‐driven reduction of genetic variation in plant phenology alters soil communities and nutrient pools

Wiley/Global Change Biology Experimental warming alters spring phenology of certain plant functional groups in an early‐successional forest community

Wiley/Global Change Biology Future recovery of baleen whales is imperiled by climate change

Wiley/Global Change Biology Woody vegetation dynamics in the tropical and subtropical Andes from 2001 to 2014: satellite image interpretation and expert validation

Farming, fishing and food: Human food supply imperiled

ABC White wine taste is changing as temperatures in growing areas rise, winemaker says

Anthropocene Forced to follow their catch, fishers are moving north

Anthropocene What’s the cost (in fish) between 1.5 and 3 degrees of warming?

BBC Bees: Many British pollinating insects in decline, study shows

Carbon Brief Ocean warming has caused ‘sustainable’ fish stocks to drop by 4% since 1930s

Daily Mail [Australia] Changing rainfall patterns could threaten major crops including wheat, corn, and rice worldwide in just 20 years even if greenhouse gases are reduced, study warns

DW After a year of record droughts, Germany's meteorological office sets up early warning system

Guardian Italy sees 57% drop in olive harvest as result of climate change, scientist says

Independent Climate change is creating toxic crops and poisoning some of world’s poorest people, scientists warn

National Geographic Climate change is depleting our essential fisheries

Reuters Wine and shine - Scorching summer wilts Australia's grape crop

Washington Post Climate change is already hurting fruit breeders, and consumers could soon feel the pain

Xinhua Global warming has not extended plant growing season since 2000: study

Academic articles about farming, fishing and food

IOP Science/Environmental Research Letters Future changes in spring wheat yield in the European Russia as inferred from a large ensemble of high-resolution climate projections

Nature Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes

PNAS Emergence of robust precipitation changes across crop production areas in the 21st century

Wiley/AGU100/Earth’s Future Spatial Patterns of Crop Yield Change by Emitted Pollutant

Wiley/AGU100/Earth’s Future When Will Current Climate Extremes Affecting Maize Production Become the Norm?

Wiley/Global Change Biology Biochar application as a tool to decrease soil nitrogen losses (NH3 volatilization, N2O emissions, and N leaching) from croplands: options and mitigation strength in a global perspective

Wiley/Global Change Biology Global wheat production with 1.5 and 2.0°C above pre‐industrial warming

Wiley/Global Change Biology Warmer and browner waters decrease fish biomass production

Wiley/Global Change Biology Yield vs. quality trade‐offs for wheat in response to carbon dioxide and ozone

Photo Attributions

Banner: Photo by: Jillyspoon

Agriculture threatened: Photo by: Diganta Talukdar

Ecosystems threatened: Photo by: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters

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