Talk:Effects of climate change on biomes

Changing the lead around
I've just changed the lead around by puting the last sentence first. I think you took too long with this lead to "get to the point". The first sentence of the lead should say exactly what this article is about, not tell a long winded "story". We have discussed this also at other articles from time to time. I think the lead, and especially the first sentence, should adhere to this: MOS:FIRST. EMsmile (talk) 13:01, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Content about genetic diversity
I've removed this section from "Effects of climate change on plant biodiversity" as I don't think it fitted there. Does any of this content fit here?:

Genetic diversity
Species richness and species evenness play a key role in how quickly and productively an ecosystem can adapt to change. By increasing the possibility of a population bottleneck through more extreme weather events, genetic diversity in the population would drastically decrease. Since genetic diversity is a main contributor of how an ecosystem can evolve, the ecosystem would be much more susceptible to getting wiped out since each individual would be similar to the next. An absence of genetic mutations and decrease in species richness greatly enhances the possibility of extinction.

Altering the environment puts stress on a plant to increase its phenotypic plasticity, causing species to change faster than predicted. These plastic responses will help the plants respond to a fast changing environment. Understanding how native species change in response to the environment will help gather conclusions of how mutualistic relationships will react. EMsmile (talk) 12:55, 7 December 2023 (UTC) EMsmile (talk) 12:55, 7 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Those paragraphs are such a vaguely-phrased mix of things! Looking at the references, it seems like one of them would ultimately fit in a plant-focused article, while some of the others might be more at home in extinction risk from climate change, even? I'll have to consider it some other time. InformationToKnowledge (talk) 19:21, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Lead should be longer
Can we add a bit more to the lead? Make it more towards 500 words? Perhaps some examples on which biomes are affected/changing? I noticed there is a section about the same topic at biome. Maybe, if it's any good, it could be moved into the lead here? You can see it here and I've just added an excerpt from here as well. EMsmile (talk) 20:50, 5 February 2024 (UTC)