Climate change and islands’ ecosystem services: a global meta-analysis 

• DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-16829
• Publication Date: 2024-03-11T09:04:59Z
• Authors: George Zittis; Shiri Zemah-Shamir; Mirela Tase; Savvas Zotos; Nazli Demirel; Christos Zoumides; Tamer Albayrak; Cigdem Kaptan Ayhan; Irene Christoforidi; Turgay Dindaroglu; Mauro Fois; Paraskevi Manolaki; Attila Sandor; Ina Sieber; Stamatiadou Valen...; Elli Tzirkalli; Ioannis Vogiatzakis; Ziv Zemah-Shamir; Aristides Moustakas

Islands are hotspots of biological and cultural diversity, which, compared to mainlands, more vulnerable environmental degradation, climate change, uncontrolled land use changes financial or societal crises. Particularly when combined, these factors can increasingly impact the socioeconomic services in many such isolated ecosystems communities. Atmospheric warming, ocean acidification other abrupt directly biodiversity islands surrounding water bodies, associated Ecosystem Services and, turn, well-being islanders. Although existing techniques adequately predict climate-induced ecological over continents larger islands, this is not case for smaller where refined information typically available. The primary objective present review better understand linkages between change on from global regional local scales. This limited direct positive negative impacts conditions but also includes potential ecosystem provide nature-based solutions mitigation adaptation. Non-climatic drivers, e.g., changes, that may augment alleviate effects islands’ explored.