Climate and land-use change drive population decline in a red-listed plant species

Suppula, M.; Hällfors, M.H.; Aapala, K.; Aalto, J.; Kemppainen, E.; Leikola, N.; Pirinen, P.; Heikkinen, R.K.

doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02526

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“…The ecological imbalance caused by excessive land use is a fundamental cause of environmental problems, including climate change [27][28][29]. The damage and destruction of nature caused by human activities has harmed most other species and is causing adverse effects on humans themselves in various forms.…”

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Passive Restoration Achieved through Natural Processes over 70 Years in the Korean DMZ

Lim,

Kim,

Lim

et al. 2024

Forests

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The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is an area where human disturbance has been strictly restrained for about seven decades since 1953. As a result, compared with rural and urban areas in Korea with similar ecological conditions, the landscape structure of the Korean DMZ today shows a big difference in that it has a riparian forest and lacks any of the artificial landscape elements, such as agricultural and residential areas. The vegetation maps made in the 1950s and those made in recent years of a model site that extends throughout the DMZ, the Civilian Control Zone (CCZ), and adjacent rural areas show that successional changes in the DMZ and CCZ areas are remarkable, while changes in the rural areas are not clear. Rice fields have been replaced by riparian forests, whereas young forests in areas previously subjected to excessive use and pine forests have been replaced by broad-leaved forests. Among the three landscape elements that changed, it was found that riparian zones, where natural disturbance is usually frequent, could mitigate the impacts of human disturbance and restore the original features of nature sooner than any other elements. The results of analyses on landscape change that focused on rice fields before the Korean War also showed similar results: most of these fields had turned into riparian vegetation. Stand ordination of riparian vegetation investigated in the CCZ, rural areas, and urban areas showed clear differences in species composition and diversity among regions. In this study, we confirmed the passive restoration of the Korean DMZ and CCZ through natural regeneration processes as a result of restricted human disturbance over a period of about seven decades.

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Passive Restoration Achieved through Natural Processes over 70 Years in the Korean DMZ

Lim,

Kim,

Lim

et al. 2024

Forests

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Predictions of species distributions based only on models estimating future climate change are not reliable

Tsiftsis,

Štípková,

Rejmánek

et al. 2024

Sci Rep

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Changes in climate and land use are the most often mentioned factors responsible for the current decline in species diversity. To reduce the effect of these factors, we need reliable predictions of future species distributions. This is usually done by utilizing species distribution models (SDMs) based on expected climate. Here we explore the accuracy of such projections: we use orchid (Orchidaceae) recordings and environmental (mainly climatic) data from the years 1901–1950 in SDMs to predict maps of potential species distributions in 1980–2014. This should enable us to compare the predictions of species distributions in 1980–2014, based on records of species distribution in the years 1901–1950, with real data in the 1980–2014 period. We found that the predictions of the SDMs often differ from reality in this experiment. The results clearly indicate that SDM predictions of future species distributions as a reaction to climate change must be treated with caution.

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Analysis of urban expansion and its relationship with climate change in Huancayo 1969-2019

Chihuan,

Mollehuara,

Quispe

et al. 2023

E3S Web Conf.

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In recent decades urban expansion has indicated changes in the atmosphere and land. This article aims to analyze the relationship between urban expansion and climate change in the city of Huancayo in the period 1969-2019. Annual meteorological data from SENAMHI, demographic data from INEI for urban and rural population, and satellite images for land use change were used, and the Pearson correlation model was applied. From this, it was obtained that the average temperature suffered an increase of 1.87 °C, and the accumulated annual precipitation remained at constant peaks. In the case of the population, the urban zone presented an increase of 37.12% and in the rural zone a decrease of 50.57%. On the other hand, the change in land use was categorised into 6 classes, resulting in the following growth rates for the urban zone 2% and the agricultural zone 0.2%, in contrast to the forest zone, which showed a decrease of 0.7%. Finally, the analysis shows a strong direct correlation between the variables of mean temperature-urban and agricultural expansion (r= 0.646 and r= 0.278) with a significance of (α= 0.05). Therefore, it is necessary to implement urban planning measures in a context of climate change.

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Climate and land-use change drive population decline in a red-listed plant species

Cited by 3 publications

References 51 publications

Passive Restoration Achieved through Natural Processes over 70 Years in the Korean DMZ

Passive Restoration Achieved through Natural Processes over 70 Years in the Korean DMZ

Predictions of species distributions based only on models estimating future climate change are not reliable

Analysis of urban expansion and its relationship with climate change in Huancayo 1969-2019

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