Are there limits to our ability to adapt food systems to climate change? This overview paper for the special issue highlights results of research on potential limits and responses by food system actors. Responses are shaped by the critical interactions among the physical, chemical, biological, and social impacts in food systems arising from climate change. Food grains, temperate perennials, livestock

Here is a commentary on “Methane Fluxes in Tidal Marshes of the Contiguous United States” recently published in Global Change Biology. Tidal wetlands are distinctive ecosystems with highly diverse species composition and complex, flexible environments. Thus, it is critical to accurately determine CH4 emissions from tidal wetlands in a changing climate. This study provides a very valuable data set to

Monitoring agriculture by remote sensing enables large‐scale evaluation of biomass production across space and time. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is used as a proxy for green biomass. Here, we used satellite‐derived NDVI of arable farms in the Netherlands to evaluate changes in biomass following conversion from conventional to organic farming. We compared NDVI and the stability

The use of plant genetic resources (PGR)—wild relatives, landraces, and isolated breeding gene pools—has had substantial impacts on wheat breeding for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, while increasing nutritional value, end‐use quality, and grain yield. In the Global South, post‐Green Revolution genetic yield gains are generally achieved with minimal additional inputs. As a result, production

Many recent studies have examined the impact of predicted changes in temperature and precipitation patterns on infectious diseases under different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. But these emissions scenarios symbolize more than altered temperature and precipitation regimes; they also represent differing levels of change in energy, transportation, and food production at a global scale to reduce

Bell, J. J., Micaroni, V., Strano, F., Ryan, K. G., Mitchell, K., Mitchell, P., Wilkinson, S., Thomas, T., Batchiar, R., & Smith, R. O. (2024). Marine heatwave-driven mass mortality and microbial community reorganisation in an ecologically important temperate sponge. Global Change Biology, 30, e17417. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17417 In the originally published article, the author Ramadian Bachtiar's

Stephenson, T., Hudiburg, T., Mathias, J. M., Jones, M., & Lynch, L. M. (2024). Do Tasmanian devil declines impact ecosystem function? Global Change Biology, 30, e17413. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17413. It has come to our attention that the legends for Figure 3 were incorrect. FIGURE 3 Open in figure viewerPowerPoint Relative abundance of all bacterial phyla (a–c) and phyla whose abundance significantly

Nearly a third of the world's population suffers from pollen-induced respiratory allergies—and the number is rising. For those affected, the situation is becoming more stressful every year with climate change, rising atmospheric CO2 levels, and urbanization. These phenomena form a complex interface between human health and global change, yet the critical information needed to unravel it remains fragmented

Palacios-Robles, E., Medina, K., Loarte, E., Castañeda-Barreto, A., Gamboa-Mendoza, M., Polo-Salazar, R., Tapia, P., Pellicciotti, F., & Brown, L. E. (2024). Declining glacier cover drives changes in aquatic macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the cordillera Blanca, Perú. Global Change Biology, 30, e17355. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17355 We omitted author institutions and funding for our article. The