TY  - JOUR
A1  - Polly, P. David
A1  - Eronen, Jussi
A1  - Fred, Marianne
A1  - Dietl, Gregory P.
A1  - Mosbrugger, Volker
A1  - Scheidegger, Christoph
A1  - Frank, David C.
A1  - Damuth, John
A1  - Stenseth, Nils C.
A1  - Fortelius, Mikael
T1  - History matters : ecometrics and integrative climate change biology
T2  - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
N2  - Climate change research is increasingly focusing on the dynamics among species, ecosystems and climates. Better data about the historical behaviours of these dynamics are urgently needed. Such data are already available from ecology, archaeology, palaeontology and geology, but their integration into climate change research is hampered by differences in their temporal and geographical scales. One productive way to unite data across scales is the study of functional morphological traits, which can form a common denominator for studying interactions between species and climate across taxa, across ecosystems, across space and through time—an approach we call ‘ecometrics’. The sampling methods that have become established in palaeontology to standardize over different scales can be synthesized with tools from community ecology and climate change biology to improve our understanding of the dynamics among species, ecosystems, climates and earth systems over time. Developing these approaches into an integrative climate change biology will help enrich our understanding of the changes our modern world is undergoing.
KW  - climate change
KW  - scalability
KW  - traits
KW  - ecometrics
KW  - species interactions
Y1  - 2011
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/22184
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-110560
SN  - 1471-2954
SN  - 0950-1193
SN  - 0080-4649
SN  - 0962-8452
N1  - This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 278
IS  - 1709
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - The Royal Society
CY  - London
ER  -