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Changes in flora and fauna on terrestrial and aquatic environments as the climate warms
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The aim of this paper is to describe the main impact of climate change on
terrestrial and on coastal and estuarine systems.
There is now ample evidence of the effect of climate change on terrestrial and
marine environments. Hence, understanding and predicting the effect of
climate change on plants is of major importance, because their responses can
affect entire food webs, disturbance regimes and crucial ecosystem, services,
including pollination, carbon and nutrient cycling, and water supply. We will
herein review responses of flora to climate change in what concerns
phenology and physiology of organisms, the range and distribution of species,
the composition and interaction within communities, and the structure and
dynamics of ecosystems.
Estuarine and coastal ecosystems are strongly affected by variations in
climate through alterations in freshwater input, which result in changes in
water temperature and salinity. Predicting the response of estuarine systems
to future scenarios of climate change requires knowledge of the present
relationships between estuarine and coastal communities and variations in
local weather patterns. The impact of biological, hydrodynamic and large
scale climatic variables on the zooplankton, ichthyoplankton, fish and jellyfish
communities of Mondego estuary (evaluated from 2003 to present) are
presented and discussed. Ongoing Research programmes in zooplankton,
ichthyoplankton, fish and jellyfish communities on the Mondego estuarine
system (Portugal) are also described.
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Biodiversity Climate change
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Citation
Bacelar-Nicolau, P., Azeiteiro,. U.M. (2015) "Changes in flora and fauna on terrestrial and aquatic environments as the climate warms", In Caeiro, Sandra [et al.], coord. ‐ "The heat is Up" [Em linha] : cross ‐disciplinary perspectives on climate change negotiations. [Lisboa]: Universidade Aberta, 2015. ISBN 978‐972‐674‐771‐0
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Universidade Aberta