The potential impacts of interactions of multiple climate change factors in soil ecosystems have received little attention.
Deryng, D., Conway, D., Ramankutty, N., Price, J. & Warren, R. Global crop yield response to extreme heat stress under multiple climate change futures.
It implements a Regional Risk Assessment (RRA) methodology allowing the spatial assessment of multiple climate change impacts in coastal areas and the ranking of key elements at risk (beaches, wetlands, protected areas, urban and agricultural areas).
Multiple climate change factors, such as changes in [CO2], temperature, and precipitation regimes, can interact in ways that make predicting their direct impact on ecosystems difficult [40].
We investigated whether multiple climate change factors would alter the successional trajectory associated with woody plant establishment in an old-field ecosystem.
Nakazawa et al. [63] investigated the effects of climate change on tularemia and plague in the US with ENM and multiple climate change scenarios and predicted similar trends with more contraction occurring in the southern habitats than in the northern habitats for 2050.
Additional steps include sensitivity analysis, such as applying multiple climate change scenarios or concentration-response functions for health effects.
Consequently, research that examines the effects of multiple climate change factors, such as temperature and carbon dioxide, and altered levels of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning is essential and timely.
The Clean Power Plan is a critical step in curbing the multiple threats climate changes poses to all of us.
Finally, we emphasize the importance of studying interactions between multiple predicted climate change parameters, in this case, the interactive effects of elevated CO2 and variability in the onset of spring.
