Impact des changements climatiques et de la fréquentation humaine sur la biodiversité des îles subantarctiques françaises

Biological invasions, in connection with climate changes, are amongst the most significant threats to biodiversity worldwide. Even in antarctic and subantarctic regions, alien species arrived since the end of the 18th century. Most of these introductions are obviously associated with human activitie...

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Main Authors: Yves Frenot, Marc Lebouvier, Jean-Claude Gloaguen, Françoise Hennion, Philippe Vernon, Jean-Louis Chapuis
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Language:English
Published: Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography 2006-09-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/12097
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description Biological invasions, in connection with climate changes, are amongst the most significant threats to biodiversity worldwide. Even in antarctic and subantarctic regions, alien species arrived since the end of the 18th century. Most of these introductions are obviously associated with human activities and ship landings. Otherwise, as predicted by many global circulation models, rates of warming are expected to be stronger at higher latitudes. Our study on the Kerguelen Islands confirms this trend and demonstrates that the effects of warming (+ 1.3°C since the mid 1960s) and summer droughts on plants and invertebrates are now visible. With climate change occurring rapidly, both the numbers of introductions and the success of colonisation by alien species are likely to increase, with as consequence subsequent impacts on the entire ecosystem.
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spelling doaj-art-e0380fd54b9545aeae92ec993fa30e372025-08-20T03:18:04ZengSociété Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of GeographyBelgeo1377-23682294-91352006-09-01336337210.4000/belgeo.12097Impact des changements climatiques et de la fréquentation humaine sur la biodiversité des îles subantarctiques françaisesYves FrenotMarc LebouvierJean-Claude GloaguenFrançoise HennionPhilippe VernonJean-Louis ChapuisBiological invasions, in connection with climate changes, are amongst the most significant threats to biodiversity worldwide. Even in antarctic and subantarctic regions, alien species arrived since the end of the 18th century. Most of these introductions are obviously associated with human activities and ship landings. Otherwise, as predicted by many global circulation models, rates of warming are expected to be stronger at higher latitudes. Our study on the Kerguelen Islands confirms this trend and demonstrates that the effects of warming (+ 1.3°C since the mid 1960s) and summer droughts on plants and invertebrates are now visible. With climate change occurring rapidly, both the numbers of introductions and the success of colonisation by alien species are likely to increase, with as consequence subsequent impacts on the entire ecosystem.https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/12097species introductioninvasive speciesclimate warmingdrought
spellingShingle Yves Frenot
Marc Lebouvier
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Philippe Vernon
Jean-Louis Chapuis
Impact des changements climatiques et de la fréquentation humaine sur la biodiversité des îles subantarctiques françaises
Belgeo
species introduction
invasive species
climate warming
drought
title Impact des changements climatiques et de la fréquentation humaine sur la biodiversité des îles subantarctiques françaises
title_full Impact des changements climatiques et de la fréquentation humaine sur la biodiversité des îles subantarctiques françaises
title_fullStr Impact des changements climatiques et de la fréquentation humaine sur la biodiversité des îles subantarctiques françaises
title_full_unstemmed Impact des changements climatiques et de la fréquentation humaine sur la biodiversité des îles subantarctiques françaises
title_short Impact des changements climatiques et de la fréquentation humaine sur la biodiversité des îles subantarctiques françaises
title_sort impact des changements climatiques et de la frequentation humaine sur la biodiversite des iles subantarctiques francaises
topic species introduction
invasive species
climate warming
drought
url https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/12097
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