Biological consequences of global warming: is the signal already apparent?

被引:1443
作者
Hughes, L [1 ]
机构
[1] Macquarie Univ, Dept Biol Sci, N Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia
[2] Macquarie Univ, Key Ctr Biodivers & Bioresources, N Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia
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10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01764-4
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations are expected to have significant impacts on the world's climate on a timescale of decades to centuries. Evidence from long-term monitoring studies is now accumulating and suggests that the climate of the past few decades is anomalous compared with past climate variation, and that recent climatic and atmospheric trends are already affecting species physiology, distribution and phenology.
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