Torsten Nygaard Kristensen

SDG 15: Life On Land Research Advancing Ecosystem Biodiversity and Restoration SDG 15: Life on Land aims to protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. SDG 15 focuses on conserving biodiversity, halting land degradation, and ensuring the sustainable management of forests and other natural habitats.

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1 INTRODUCTION Global climate change poses an unprecedented threat to our planet's biological diversity (Thomas et al., 2004), with temperatures predicted to continue to increase and become more extreme in future decades and centuries (IPCC, 2022). It is of central importance to understand the responses of organisms to such changes and how these can vary across regions, and to predict the consequences for biodiversity broadly.