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Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

Overview of attention for article published in Science, August 2018
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111 news outlets
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19 blogs
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702 X users
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Title
Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change
Published in
Science, August 2018
DOI 10.1126/science.aan5360
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Authors

Connor Nolan, Jonathan T Overpeck, Judy R M Allen, Patricia M Anderson, Julio L Betancourt, Heather A Binney, Simon Brewer, Mark B Bush, Brian M Chase, Rachid Cheddadi, Morteza Djamali, John Dodson, Mary E Edwards, William D Gosling, Simon Haberle, Sara C Hotchkiss, Brian Huntley, Sarah J Ivory, A Peter Kershaw, Soo-Hyun Kim, Claudio Latorre, Michelle Leydet, Anne-Marie Lézine, Kam-Biu Liu, Yao Liu, A V Lozhkin, Matt S McGlone, Robert A Marchant, Arata Momohara, Patricio I Moreno, Stefanie Müller, Bette L Otto-Bliesner, Caiming Shen, Janelle Stevenson, Hikaru Takahara, Pavel E Tarasov, John Tipton, Annie Vincens, Chengyu Weng, Qinghai Xu, Zhuo Zheng, Stephen T Jackson

Abstract

Impacts of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystems are imperfectly constrained by ecosystem models and direct observations. Pervasive ecosystem transformations occurred in response to warming and associated climatic changes during the last glacial-to-interglacial transition, which was comparable in magnitude to warming projected for the next century under high-emission scenarios. We reviewed 594 published paleoecological records to examine compositional and structural changes in terrestrial vegetation since the last glacial period and to project the magnitudes of ecosystem transformations under alternative future emission scenarios. Our results indicate that terrestrial ecosystems are highly sensitive to temperature change and suggest that, without major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems worldwide are at risk of major transformation, with accompanying disruption of ecosystem services and impacts on biodiversity.

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Geographical breakdown

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Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 94 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 92 17%
Student > Master 59 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 31 6%
Professor 27 5%
Other 90 17%
Unknown 139 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 107 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 106 20%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 57 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 3%
Social Sciences 15 3%
Other 67 13%
Unknown 164 31%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1426. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 November 2023.
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#9,211
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Outputs from Science
#466
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#154
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#13
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