Ecosystem Collapse and Climate Change

Ecosystem Collapse and Climate Change: An Introduction.- PART I. Polar and Boreal Ecosystems .- Ecosystem Collapse on a Sub-Antarctic Island.- Permafrost Thaw in Northern Peatlands: Rapid Changes in Ecosystem and Landscape Functions.- Post-fire Recruitment Failure as a Driver of Forest to Non-forest Ecosystem Shifts in Boreal Regions.- A Paleo-perspective on Ecosystem Collapse in Boreal North America.- PART II. Temperate and Semi-arid Ecosystems .- The 2016 Tasmanian Wilderness Fires: Fire Regime Shifts and Climate Change in a Gondwanan Biogeographic Refugium.- Climate-Induced Global Forest Shifts due to Heatwave-Drought.- Extreme Events Trigger Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystem Collapses in the Southwestern USA and Southwestern Australia.- PART III. Tropical and Temperate Coastal Ecosystems.- Processes and Factors Driving Change in Mangrove Forests: An Evaluation Based on the Mass Dieback Event in Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria.- Recurrent Mass-Bleaching and the Potential for Ecosystem Collapse on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.- Sliding Toward the Collapse of Mediterranean Coastal Marine Rocky Ecosystems.- Marine Heatwave Drives Collapse of Kelp Forests in Western Australia.- Impact of Marine Heatwaves on Seagrass Ecosystems.