Literature Review Assignment: Biodiversity and Climate Change Impact

This assignment is a literature review focusing on the impact of climate change on biodiversity. It examines several scientific papers that explore topics such as species adaptation, extinction risks, and the effects of changing climatic conditions on species distribution. The review highlights the use of mathematical models in predicting distributional risks and the influence of temperature on species ranges. Studies on plant extinction in the Australian region, the impact on the Great Basin region, and the effects on marine biodiversity are included. The assignment also references specific research papers and their findings, such as the increased extinction rate of Ochotona princeps, and the effects of climate change on biodiversity in Amazonia. The review emphasizes the importance of understanding these relationships to predict future trends and assess changes in biodiversity, with a focus on the use of databases and search engines to retrieve and analyze scientific literature. The assignment is designed to provide a practical exercise in retrieving and summarizing scientific information, with correct in-text citations and a reference list.

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Literature 1
Adaptation could either be rapid or slow both are generally helpful for a species, to survive and
evolve in stressful conditions. The power of adaptation in different species could determine the
survival of species (Hoffmann & Sgro, 2011).
The mathematical model helps in predicting the distributional risk along with the probability of
the extinction risk in the scenario of climate change. The study was focused on the prediction of
plant extinction in the Australian region (Fordham et al., 2012).
The study used the records of species distribution throughout the selected local Great Basin
region; it was observed that the rate of species (Ochotona princeps) extinction increased 5 folds
over the last 10 years of the study (Beever et al., 2011).
The change in global climatic conditions results in a shift in the biodiversity of the local
ecological conditions by either directly or indirectly affecting species distribution. The study
demonstrated a strong relationship between temperature and directing the range of species (Ihlow
et al., 2012).
The authors suggested that specificities and caveats are a few of the common approaches that
could be used to make an assessment of change in biodiversity, also future trends in biodiversity
could be predicted (Bellard et al., 2012).
The paper was aimed to study marine biodiversity as very few literatures is available on the topic
and it was observed that deep-sea biodiversity was affected with the increase in global
temperature (Yasuhara et al., 2014).
The review was based on the reaction of species and ecosystems due to the effect of change in
climate by applying various mathematical models (McMahon et al., 2011).
The study was conducted to observe the climate pattern and its relation to the biodiversity of
Amazonia (Cheng et al., 2013).

Literature 2
Reference
Beever, E.A. et al., 2011. Contemporary climate change alters the pace and drivers of extinction.
Global Change Biology, 17(6), pp.2054-70.
Bellard, C. et al., 2012. Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity. Ecology letters ,
15(4), pp.365-77.
Cheng, H. et al., 2013. Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity. Nature
communications, 4(1), pp.1-6.
Fordham, D.A. et al., 2012. lant extinction risk under climate change: are forecast range shifts
alone a good indicator of species vulnerability to global warming? Global Change Biology,
18(4), pp.1357-71.
Hoffmann, A.A. & Sgro, C.M., 2011. Climate change and evolutionary adaptation. Nature,
470(7335), pp.479-85.
Ihlow, F. et al., 2012. On the brink of extinction? How climate change may affect global
chelonian species richness and distribution. Global Change Biology, 18(5), pp.1520-30.
McMahon, S.M. et al., 2011. Improving assessment and modelling of climate change impacts on
global terrestrial biodiversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 26(5), pp.249-59.
Yasuhara, M. et al., 2014. Response of deep-sea biodiversity to abrupt deglacial and Holocene
climate changes in the North Atlantic Ocean. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23(9), pp.957-
67.