Climate change is altering species’ range limits and transforming ecosystems. For example, warming temperatures are leading to the range expansion of tropical, cold-sensitive species at the expense of their cold-tolerant counterparts. In some temperate and subtropical coastal wetlands, warming winters are enabling mangrove forest encroachment into salt marsh, which is a major regime shift that has significant ecological and so...

The quality and effectiveness of fish spawning grounds are of great significance to the conservation of freshwater systems, and the distribution of spawning grounds is critical to clearly identify. This study combines a hydrodynamic model and satellite imagery to determine potential spawning grounds in the largest freshwater lake in China. Results revealed that the increase in vegetation in Poyang Lake led to an expansion of p...