Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Sustainability focuses on research on "temperature-related biodiversity change". For this Special Issue, the author (s) should see their research as a cumulative advance in the literature on the effect of temperature change (in space and/or time) on biodiversity. We seek to form a cohesive manuscript collection from different world regions (regardless of the scale), including research papers, communications and review articles.

The conversion of land use and deforestation are among the main human activities that cause global warming and, consequently, climate change. In this way, manuscripts that describe temperature-related biodiversity change, both in the context of different land uses and climate change, are welcome.

The January 2021 global land and ocean surface temperature was 0.80°C (1.44°F) above the 20th century average and ranked as the seventh warmest January in the 142-year global records [1]. Further, according to the NOAA [1], “As a whole, about 5.93% of the world's surface had a record-warm 2021 January temperature–the third highest January percentage since records began in 1951”.

Considering that, the data above are worrying, given that “environmental temperature is a primary variable important for biological function at all organizational scales. Even slight temperature changes can dramatically affect biological processes from cells to populations, with strong ecological consequences” (literal transcription of Waldock et al. [2]). Various facets of biodiversity, for example, abundance, demographic and activity rates and species richness, can respond to changes in the environment temperature, consequently driving a reorganization of ecological communities [2–6]. The tropicalization of some temperate coastal areas has also been more and more evident with frequent records of tropical species within those ranges [7], which links marine species to a net increase in the water temperture in recent decades [8].

References

1. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, State of the Climate: Global Climate Report for January 2021, published online February 2021, retrieved on March 6, 2021 from https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/202101.
2. Waldock, C.; Dornelas, M.; Bates, A.E. Temperature-Driven Biodiversity Change: Disentangling Space and Time. BioScience 2018, 68(11), 873–884. Doi:10.1093/biosci/biy096
3. Antão, L.H.; Bates , A.E.; Blowes , S.A.; Waldock , C.; Supp, S.R.; Magurran, A.E.; Dornelas , M.; Schipper, A.M.  Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems. Laura H. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2020, 4, 927–933. Doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1185-7
4. Parmesan, C.; Yohe, G. A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems. Nature 2003, 421, 37– Doi: 10.1038/nature01286
5. Parmesan, C. Ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 2006, 37, 637–669. Doi: 1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110100
6. Poloczanska, E.S.; Brown, C.J.; Sydeman, W.J.; Kiessling, W.; Schoeman, D.S.; Moore, P.J.; Brander, K.; Bruno, J.F.; Buckley, L.B.; Burrows, M.T.; Duarte, C.; Halpern, B.S.; Holding, J.; Kappel, C.V.; O'Connor, M.I.; Pandolfi, J.M.; Parmesan, C.; Schwing, F.; Thompson, S.A.; Richardson, A.J. Global imprint of climate change on marine life. Nature Climate Change2013, 3(10), 919– Doi: 10.1038/nclimate1958
7. Encarnação, J.; Morais, P.; Baptista, V.; Cruz, J.; Teodósio, M.A. New Evidence of Marine Fauna Tropicalization off the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula (Southwest Europe). Diversity2019, 11, 48. Doi: 10.3390/d11040048
8. Baptista, V.; Silva, P.L.; Relvas, P.; Teodósio, M.A.; Leitão, F. Sea surface temperature variability along the Portuguese coast since 1950. International Journal of Climatology 2018, 38(3), 1145-1160. Doi: 10.1002/joc.5231

Prof. Dr. José Max Barbosa Oliveira-Junior
Prof. Dr. Alexandra Teodósio
Prof. Dr. Vânia Baptista
Prof. Dr. Leandro Juen
Guest Editors

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• Bergmann's rule
• global warming
• effects of temperature on biodiversity
• metabolic theory
• population declines and temperature
• sustainable biodiversity and conservation
• temperature and species richness
• thermal adaptation
• thermal gradients and biodiversity
• urban heat island effect on biodiversity
• yearly temperature cycles