Nature and Farming: News links for February 2019

Ecosystems threatened: The Sixth Great Extinction

Oceanic Ecosystems

ABC News [Australia] Jellyfish are causing mayhem as pollution, climate change see numbers boom

AFP/Agence France Presse Climate change pushing killer whales to migrate north

BBC News Antarctic krill: Key food source moves south

CBS News Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048

NPR Massive Starfish Die-Off Is Tied To Global Warming

Reuters Antarctica's krill shift south as icy waters warm

Other ecosystem types

Atlantic The Best Real Estate to Get Animals Through Climate Change: Deep in shady forests and at the bottom of towering canyons, climate refugia could provide the stability that vulnerable species need.

BBC News How one heatwave killed 'a third' of a bat species in Australia

CNN Ancient Baobab trees in Southern Africa are dying. Scientists blame climate change

CNN The climate change winners and losers in Antarctica's animal kingdom

Forbes Climate Change Transforms These Cute Little Birds Into Murderous Brain-Eating Zombies

Guardian Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’

Independent Climate change pushing eels in Europe towards extinction, study shows

Independent Climate change: male infertility caused by heatwaves may result in mass extinction

Independent Spring arrives in November as British wildlife responds to milder climate

Mongabay Muskox and other Arctic mammals are feeling the heat of climate change

New York Post Great tits are eating bird brains and climate change is to blame: study

Reuters As polar seas heat up, mammals will find less slow, stupid prey

Academic articles about ecosystems

Climate Council [Australia] IS THERE A LINK BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND KILLER JELLYFISH?

Current Biology Climate Change May Affect Fatal Competition between Two Bird Species

Nature Arctic protection can’t wait for global treaty

Nature Krill (Euphausia superba) distribution contracts southward during rapid regional warming

The Conservation Climate change: effect on sperm could hold key to species extinction

The Conversation Lake Baikal: how climate change is threatening the world’s oldest, deepest lake

Wiley Incorporating local adaptation into forecasts of species’ distribution and abundance under climate change

Wiley / Global Change Biology Responses of an endangered brown bear population to climate change based on predictable food resource and shelter alterations

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

Wiley/AGU100/Geophysical Research Letters Climatic warming increases spatial synchrony in spring vegetation phenology across the Northern Hemisphere

Wiley/AGU100/Geophysical Research Letters Forest drought resistance at large geographic scales

Wiley/Global Change Biology Back to the future? Late Holocene marine food web structure in a warm climatic phase as a predictor of trophodynamics in a warmer South‐Western Atlantic Ocean

Wiley/Global Change Biology Bottom‐up and top‐down effects of browning and warming on shallow lake food webs

Wiley/Global Change Biology Coral chimerism as an evolutionary rescue mechanism to mitigate global climate change impacts

Wiley/Global Change Biology Declines in northern forest tree growth following snowpack decline and soil freezing

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

Wiley/Global Change Biology Susceptibility of European freshwater fish to climate change: Species profiling based on life‐history and environmental characteristics

Wiley/Global Change Biology Twenty‐first‐century climate change impacts on marine animal biomass and ecosystem structure across ocean basins

Farming, fishing and food: Human food supply imperiled

Agence France Presse Climate change takes toll on French oyster farmers

BBC News South Korean farmers see boost in banana crop

Bismarck Tribune Climate change increases crop specialization risks in Midwest, study suggests

Bloomberg Climate Change Threatens to Make Your Morning Brew More Expensive

Carbon Brief Guest post: Climate change brings threat of ‘bluetongue’ virus to UK farms

Eco-Business Climate change is turning China into wine country

EcoWatch 35,000 Protestors in Berlin Call for Agricultural Revolution

Fast Company Hershey wants to make sure climate change doesn’t destroy its chocolate supplies

Guardian The end of coffee: could Australia save the world's beans?

Inside Climate News Farmers, Don't Count on Technology to Protect Agriculture from Climate Change

National Public Radio [US] Climate Change Is Bad For Peru's Pastures ... But There's A 1,200-Year-Old Fix

Reuters Landmark project to help Peru coffee farmers combat climate change

Academic articles about farming, fishing, food

Elsevier/ScienceDirect/Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Effects of climate change on the extension of the potential double cropping region and crop water requirements in Northern China

Nature Food production shocks across land and sea

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Decline in climate resilience of European wheat

Springer/Climatic Change The impact of extreme weather events on livestock populations: the case of the 2011 drought in Mexico

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?

Photo Attributions

Banner: Photo by: Jillyspoon

Agriculture threatened: Photo by: Diganta Talukdar

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

​