Biodiversité

Around the end of 2019, wildfires in Australia were breaking records in terms of intensity, extent, and places of occurrence – at a point when the fire season was only just beginning. Such events illustrate how natural disturbances are increasingly affecting the world’s forests as a result of climate change, shifts in land use, fire suppression, and other human-related factors.

In the last Century, we have learnt much about the fundamental ecological and evolutionary roles of natural disturbances.

Parmi les articles au sommaire :

- A catchment‐scale perspective of plastic pollution

- Four decades of functional community change reveals gradual trends and low interlinkage across trophic groups in a large marine ecosystem

- Future recovery of baleen whales is imperiled by climate change