Waldock Conor, Dornelas Maria, Bates Amanda E
Ecological impacts of climate warming at the University of Southampton under the supervision of Amanda E. Bates.
Maria Dornelas, reader at The University of St Andrews, is a macroecologist focused on biodiversity patterns.
Bioscience. 2018 Nov 1;68(11):873-884. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biy096. Epub 2018 Sep 19.
Temperature regimes have multiple spatial and temporal dimensions that have different impacts on biodiversity. Signatures of warming across these dimensions may contribute uniquely to the large-scale species redistributions and abundance changes that underpin community dynamics. A comprehensive review of the literature reveals that 86% of studies were focused on community responses to temperature aggregated over spatial or temporal dimensions (e.g., mean, median, or extremes). Therefore, the effects of temperature variation in space and time on biodiversity remain generally unquantified. In the present article, we argue that this focus on aggregated temperature measures may limit advancing our understanding of how communities are being altered by climate change. In light of this, we map the cause-and-effect pathways between the different dimensions of temperature change and communities in space and time. A broadened focus, shifted toward a multidimensional perspective of temperature, will allow better interpretation and prediction of biodiversity change and more robust management and conservation strategies.
温度格局具有多个空间和时间维度，这些维度对生物多样性有着不同的影响。这些维度上变暖的特征可能对大规模物种重新分布和丰度变化有着独特的贡献，而这些变化是群落动态的基础。对文献的全面综述表明，86%的研究聚焦于群落对在空间或时间维度上聚合的温度的响应（例如，均值、中位数或极值）。因此，温度在空间和时间上的变化对生物多样性的影响总体上仍未得到量化。在本文中，我们认为这种对聚合温度指标的关注可能会限制我们对气候变化如何改变群落的理解。有鉴于此，我们绘制了温度变化的不同维度与空间和时间上的群落之间的因果路径。将关注点拓宽，转向温度的多维度视角，将有助于更好地解释和预测生物多样性变化，并制定更有力的管理和保护策略。
