Correction: Understanding climate change from a global analysis of city analogues

Bastin, Jean-François; Clark, Emily; Elliott, T. R.; Hart, Simon P.; Hoogen, Johan van den; Hordijk, Iris; Ma, Haozhi; Majumder, Sabiha; Manoli, Gabriele; Maschler, Julia; Mo, Lidong; Routh, Devin; Yu, Kailiang; Zohner, Constantin M.; Crowther, Thomas W.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0224120

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“…Mounting evidence shows that countries with various climatic conditions and social characteristics experience climate change in quite diverse ways (for example, [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ]). However, it is challenging to compare in a homogeneous way the results of existing studies, which implement a wide range of methodological approaches, alternative measures of temperature, a variety of biometeorological indices, and different causes of mortality across regions with no geographical proximity.…”

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Mortality Related to Air Temperature in European Cities, Based on Threshold Regression Models

Dimitriadou

Nastos

Eleftheratos

et al. 2022

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There is a wealth of scientific literature that scrutinizes the relationship between mortality and temperature. The aim of this paper is to identify the nexus between temperature and three different causes of mortality (i.e., cardiological, respiratory, and cardiorespiratory) for three countries (Scotland, Spain, and Greece) and eleven cities (i.e., Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza, Attica, and Thessaloniki), emphasizing the differences among these cities and comparing them to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship. To quantify the association between temperature and mortality, temperature thresholds are defined for each city using a robust statistical analysis, namely threshold regression analysis. In a more detailed perspective, the threshold used is called Minimum Mortality Temperature (MMT), the temperature above or below which mortality is at minimum risk. Afterward, these thresholds are compared based on the geographical coordinates of each city. Our findings show that concerning all-causes of mortality under examination, the cities with higher latitude have lower temperature thresholds compared to the cities with lower latitude. The inclusion of the relationship between mortality and temperature in the array of upcoming climate change implications is critical since future climatic scenarios show an overall increase in the ambient temperature.

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Mortality Related to Air Temperature in European Cities, Based on Threshold Regression Models

Dimitriadou

Nastos

Eleftheratos

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“…Overall, hotter cities seem to host less diverse wild bee communities composed of large, social, polylectic and/or above-groundnesting species. These patterns are relevant from a conservation point of view since the mean temperature of cities around the world is greater than the surrounding areas (the "heat island" effect) and could even increase by over 2 °C in the near future (Bastin et al 2019), jeopardizing the survival of wild bees in urban environments (Ayers and Rehan 2021).…”

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How city traits affect taxonomic and functional diversity of urban wild bee communities: insights from a worldwide analysis

Ferrari

Polidori

2022

Apidologie

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Land-use change, including urbanization, is known to affect wild bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) diversity. However, while previous studies have focused on differences across local urbanization gradients, to the best of our knowledge, none focused on differences among cities at a wide geographical scale. We here used published data for wild bee communities in 55 cities across the globe, in order to explore how city traits (population density, city size, climate and land-use parameters) affect both taxonomic (diversity, distinctness, dominance) and functional (body size, nesting strategy, sociality, plant host specialization) profile of urban bee communities. By controlling for sample size and sampling effort, we found that bigger cities host few parasitic and oligolectic species, along with more above-ground-nesting bees. Cities with highly fragmented green areas present a lower proportion of oligolectic species and a higher proportion of both social species and large-bodied bees. Cities with more impervious surfaces seem to host a lower proportion of below-ground-nesting bees. Hotter cities present both a lower richness and diversity, with functional diversity highest at intermediate precipitation values. Overall, it seems that high levels of urbanization—through habitat modification and the “heat island” effect—lead to a strong simplification of the functional diversity of wild bee communities in cities. Our results may help explain the previously observed variable response of some bee community traits across local urbanization gradients.

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“…Because the archaeological record has tended to emphasize environmental settings in either semiarid or temperate and boreal portions of the world-but less so in the tropics until recently (Scarborough and Lucero 2010)-and because the landscapes of the Global South are incrementally advancing northward with climate change today, an examination of the dichotomous contrasts between the "wet," or the tropics, and the "dry," or arid lands, may aid in assessing aspects of our climatic futures (Bastin et al 2019). By examining ancient society and the climatic impacts that groups have experienced before the truly deranging effects of technologies and global population spikes, the influence of climatic conditions over centuries can be charted.…”

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What ancient landscapes contribute to climate change

Scarborough

2021

Economic Anthropology

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Input and reevaluation are greatly needed from several sources to curtail and perhaps avoid the myriad of unintended consequences excited by the "Great Acceleration" in industry and technology initiated in the last two hundred years, the most damaging consequences now apparent with the density of greenhouse gases surrounding us. In rapidly deciding which planning assessments warrant our immediate attention, archaeology via economic anthropology has a prominent place at the table of projections and potential solutions. 1 To make this case, two complex socioenvironmental examples from the archaeological record are introduced, one emphasizing a subtropical location-the ancient Maya-and the other from a semiarid setting of the ancestral Puebloans. The climatically "wet" is juxtaposed with the "dry" to illustrate the variation in environments effecting our planetary futures and demonstrating the significance of assessing past periods of both reduced population numbers and technological advancements. They reveal a less opaque and complex set of adaptations exposing the underlying set of relationships between climate and society in attempting to project today's futures. Before presenting the case studies, the connectivity between economic anthropology, archaeology, and climate change requires a brief introduction. Economic anthropology, archaeology, and climateEconomic anthropology tends to emphasize the production, exchange, and consumption of goods and services in the context of information flows. Unlike traditional neoliberal economics, which frequently undervalue ecosystem services, it favors an evaluation of the natural environment in which humans harvest or exploit by way of measuring the rate and process of its raw availability, production or refinement, use or consumption, and disposal or recycled reintroduction (Coscieme et al. 2019; see also Costanza 1991). As archaeologists, our discipline is based on the recovery and interpretation of the material record from a studied landscape associated with human activities. Strongly influenced by economic anthropology, archaeology examines and interprets things, places, and their histories within and between groups. It uses the record of past communities to reconstruct and model societal lifeways on a landscape through time.Climate change has been evaluated by archaeologists for decades to best characterize the environment in which ancient groups were able to live for extended periods. Because of preservation issues and limitations associated with dating controls, increments of centennial time have been our usual means for monitoring changes to both landscapes

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Correction: Understanding climate change from a global analysis of city analogues

Cited by 31 publications

References 1 publication

Mortality Related to Air Temperature in European Cities, Based on Threshold Regression Models

Mortality Related to Air Temperature in European Cities, Based on Threshold Regression Models

How city traits affect taxonomic and functional diversity of urban wild bee communities: insights from a worldwide analysis

What ancient landscapes contribute to climate change

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