Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1038/NCLIMATE1347 |
| Document | Shareable Link |
| Title (Primary) | Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale |
| Author | Devictor, V.; van Swaay, C.; Brereton, T.; Brotons, L.; Chamberlain, D.; Heliölä, J.; Herrando, S.; Julliard, R.; Kuussaari, M.; Lindström, Å.; Reif, J.; Roy, D.B.; Schweiger, O.; Settele, J.; Stefanescu, C.; van Strien, A.; Van Turnhout, C.; Vermouzek, Z.; WallisDeVries, M.; Wynhoff, I.; Jiguet, F. |
| Source Titel | Nature Climate Change |
| Year | 2012 |
| Department | BZF |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Page From | 121 |
| Page To | 124 |
| Language | englisch |
| Supplements | https://media.nature.com/original/nature-assets/nclimate/journal/v2/n2/extref/nclimate1347-s1.pdf |
| Keywords | Biodiversity and ecosystems; Biological sciences; Biology; Conservation; Ecology |
| Abstract | Climate changes have profound effects on the distribution of numerous plant and animal species1, 2, 3.
However, whether and how different taxonomic groups are able to track
climate changes at large spatial scales is still unclear. Here, we
measure and compare the climatic debt accumulated by bird and butterfly
communities at a European scale over two decades (1990–2008). We
quantified the yearly change in community composition in response to
climate change for 9,490 bird and 2,130 butterfly communities
distributed across Europe4.
We show that changes in community composition are rapid but different
between birds and butterflies and equivalent to a 37 and 114 km
northward shift in bird and butterfly communities, respectively. We
further found that, during the same period, the northward shift in
temperature in Europe was even faster, so that the climatic debts of
birds and butterflies correspond to a 212 and 135 km
lag behind climate. Our results indicate both that birds and
butterflies do not keep up with temperature increase and the
accumulation of different climatic debts for these groups at national
and continental scales. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=12212 |
| Devictor, V., van Swaay, C., Brereton, T., Brotons, L., Chamberlain, D., Heliölä, J., Herrando, S., Julliard, R., Kuussaari, M., Lindström, Å., Reif, J., Roy, D.B., Schweiger, O., Settele, J., Stefanescu, C., van Strien, A., Van Turnhout, C., Vermouzek, Z., WallisDeVries, M., Wynhoff, I., Jiguet, F. (2012): Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale Nat. Clim. Chang. 2 (2), 121 - 124 10.1038/NCLIMATE1347 |
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