Climate Dipoles as Continental Drivers of Plant and Animal Populations

Benjamin Zuckerberg; Courtenay Strong; Jalene M. LaMontagne; Scott St. George; Julio L. Betancourt; Walter D. Koenig

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2020.01.010

Climate Dipoles as Continental Drivers of Plant and Animal Populations

Benjamin Zuckerberg, Courtenay Strong, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Scott St. George, Julio L. Betancourt, Walter D. Koenig

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Abstract

Ecological processes, such as migration and phenology, are strongly influenced by climate variability. Studying these processes often relies on associating observations of animals and plants with climate indices, such as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). A common characteristic of climate indices is the simultaneous emergence of opposite extremes of temperature and precipitation across continental scales, known as climate dipoles. The role of climate dipoles in shaping ecological and evolutionary processes has been largely overlooked. We review emerging evidence that climate dipoles can entrain species dynamics and offer a framework for identifying ecological dipoles using broad-scale biological data. Given future changes in climatic and atmospheric processes, climate and ecological dipoles are likely to shift in their intensity, distribution, and timing.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	440-453
Number of pages	14
Journal	Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Volume	35
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.01.010
State	Published - May 2020

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This work was supported by National Science Foundation Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science projects 1926428 , 1926341 , and 1926221 and DEB EAGER project 1745496 . We are grateful to Hamish Steptoe and Jeremy Cohen for their assistance with figure development. We thank J. Pauli, M. Turner, V. Radeloff, and S. Jackson for their excellent input and review of earlier versions of the manuscript. We are also grateful for the comments and suggestions from two anonymous reviewers.

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Keywords

climate change
climate variability
macroecology
macrosystems ecology
population dynamics
spatial synchrony

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