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Impact of Climate Change to Natural Systems
Research Question:
How has climate change in the last 30 years affected the genetic physiology and morphology of organisms?
Hypothesis
The life cycles of plants and animals are also impacted by climate change. For instance, many plants are beginning to develop and bloom sooner in the spring as temperatures rise and to last longer into the fall. There are also certain creatures that emerge from hibernation earlier or migrate at various periods.
Background:
Climate change is brought on by human activities like burning garbage, fossil fuels, and industrial releases, which cause global warming. resulting in the biological habitat moving to a secure ecology. Changing climate regimes have historically been an important driver of natural selection, and species are responding to the current human-caused climate event in a variety of ways. Previous reviews addressed many of the more visible changes in species ranges, phenologies, and population dynamics, but they typically focused on one ecological system at a time. We discuss the full range and scale of climate change effects on biodiversity in this paper, including some of the less obvious disruptions seen in natural systems.
Climate change has an impact on marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems. Impacts on multiple processes at various levels of biological organization within ecosystems can be measured. Climate change influences 82% of the 94 ecological processes studied. The percentage of processes impacted varies by organizational level, ranging from 60% for genetics to 100% for species distribution.
Variables
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Independent Variables |
Climate Change on Natural systems |
– Consider the importance of the affected ecological processes in human systems and demonstrate the observed impacts on ecosystem services such as food and resource security (fisheries, agriculture, forestry, and livestock production), human health, and hazard reduction. |
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Dependent Variables |
Organisms (genetic, physiology, morphology) |
– Species range shifts have altered or created new “hybridization zones” around the world. – In physiological processes such as thermal optima, many species exhibit temperature-driven trait flexibility. – Individuals in some species are shrinking as temperatures rise, because large surface-to-volume ratios are generally preferred under warmer conditions. |
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Population (phenology, dynamics) |
– migrations and life-history processes (for example, budding and flowering in plants, bird hatching and fledging, and mammalian hibernation) are all closely related to seasonal and interannual climate variation, and there is now overwhelming evidence that climate change has impacted both. – Acute heat stress can have serious consequences for population dynamics such as abundance, recruitment, age structure, and sex ratios. |
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Species (distribution) |
– A shift in distribution to track optimal habitat conditions is one of the most rapid responses observed for marine, freshwater, and terrestrial species. |
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Community (productivity, interspecific relationship) |
– Existing interactions between species are being disrupted because of species redistribution in response to climate change, and new interactions are emerging. – Productivity changes are one of the most serious consequences of climate change in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. |
Method
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Fig. 1. Climate change has an impact on the marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems of the Earth. The presence of observed impacts on various across the levels of biological organization and its inner components. The marine, terrestrial, and freshwater ecosystems of the Earth. The numerator represents the total number of processes considered. Each group, and the denominator is the total number of these processes evidence of in total, 82% (n = 94) of all ecological processes that Climate change has been observed to have an impact, which was considered. Each process is supported by at least one case study. The asterisk denotes whether the affected process was evaluated in a meta-analysis as well as case studies.
