Talk:Effects of climate change on biomes
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Changing the lead around
editI've just changed the lead around by puting the last sentence first. I think you took too long with this lead to "get to the point". The first sentence of the lead should say exactly what this article is about, not tell a long winded "story". We have discussed this also at other articles from time to time. I think the lead, and especially the first sentence, should adhere to this: MOS:FIRST. EMsmile (talk) 13:01, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
Content about genetic diversity
editI've removed this section from "Effects of climate change on plant biodiversity" as I don't think it fitted there. Does any of this content fit here?:
Genetic diversity
editSpecies richness and species evenness play a key role in how quickly and productively an ecosystem can adapt to change.[1] By increasing the possibility of a population bottleneck through more extreme weather events, genetic diversity in the population would drastically decrease.[2] Since genetic diversity is a main contributor of how an ecosystem can evolve, the ecosystem would be much more susceptible to getting wiped out since each individual would be similar to the next. An absence of genetic mutations and decrease in species richness greatly enhances the possibility of extinction.[3]
Altering the environment puts stress on a plant to increase its phenotypic plasticity, causing species to change faster than predicted.[4] These plastic responses will help the plants respond to a fast changing environment. Understanding how native species change in response to the environment will help gather conclusions of how mutualistic relationships will react. EMsmile (talk) 12:55, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
References
- ^ Grimm, Nancy B.; Staudinger, Michelle D.; Staudt, Amanda; Carter, Shawn L.; Chapin, F. Stuart; Kareiva, Peter; Ruckelshaus, Mary; Stein, Bruce A. (2013). "Climate-change impacts on ecological systems: introduction to a US assessment". Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 11 (9): 456–464. doi:10.1890/120310. ISSN 1540-9309. S2CID 7539676.
- ^ Pauls, Steffen U.; Nowak, Carsten; Bálint, Miklós; Pfenninger, Markus (2012-12-20). "The impact of global climate change on genetic diversity within populations and species". Molecular Ecology. 22 (4): 925–946. doi:10.1111/mec.12152. ISSN 0962-1083. PMID 23279006. S2CID 965482.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Chapin III 234–242was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Nicotra, A.B.; Atkin, O.K.; Bonser, S.P.; Davidson, A.M.; Finnegan, E.J.; Mathesius, U.; Poot, P.; Purugganan, M.D.; Richards, C.L. (December 2010). "Plant phenotypic plasticity in a changing climate". Trends in Plant Science. 15 (12): 684–692. doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2010.09.008. hdl:1885/28486. ISSN 1360-1385. PMID 20970368.
EMsmile (talk) 12:55, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
- Those paragraphs are such a vaguely-phrased mix of things! Looking at the references, it seems like one of them would ultimately fit in a plant-focused article, while some of the others might be more at home in extinction risk from climate change, even? I'll have to consider it some other time. InformationToKnowledge (talk) 19:21, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
Lead should be longer
editCan we add a bit more to the lead? Make it more towards 500 words? Perhaps some examples on which biomes are affected/changing? I noticed there is a section about the same topic at biome. Maybe, if it's any good, it could be moved into the lead here? You can see it here and I've just added an excerpt from here as well. EMsmile (talk) 20:50, 5 February 2024 (UTC)