It remains to be seen whether similar relationships fit other countries and climates or change over time, such as with climate change.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 7 representative gaps

• Regime-based drought dynamics: a data-driven differential equation framework for state transitions, weak seasonality, and irregular variability (2026) · doi

  Future research should examine whether similar qualitative dynamics arise in other climatic set- tings and explore how external climate drivers, land-surface processes, and anthropogenic influences may alter these regime structures over longer time scales.

  Keywords: future examine whether similar qualitative dynamics arise climatic tings explore external climate drivers land surface
• Beyond collapse: climate change and causality during the Middle Holocene Climatic Transition, 6400–5000 years before present (2012) · doi

  While the implications of such changes for human societies are potentially profound, the empirical evidence base for understanding human–environment interactions focuses largely on the relatively recent past, during which examples of rapid and severe climate change are lacking.

  Keywords: human implications changes societies potentially profound empirical evidence base understanding environment interactions focuses largely relatively
• Boundary Conditions for Organizations in the Anthropocene: A Review of the Planetary Boundaries Framework 10 Years On (2024) · doi

  Theoretical development remains fragmented and of greater concern, a systems perspective is lacking in empirical studies: Most articles focus solely on one issue – climate change – and there is almost no cross‐analysis between boundaries.

  Keywords: theoretical development remains fragmented greater concern systems perspective lacking empirical articles focus solely issue climate
• Intermediating climate change: the evolving strategies, interactions and impacts of neglected “climate intermediaries” (2023) · doi

  This Special Issue analyses two under-researched forms of climate intermediaries: those that exist for reasons unconnected to climate change, and new or uncommon forms of climate intermediaries that have yet to be examined.

  Keywords: climate forms intermediaries special issue analyses researched exist reasons unconnected change uncommon examined
• Understanding climate trends in Central America through practical problem-based learning (2020) · doi

  In our current period of escalating climate change, we urgently need to better understand the modern climate and climate drivers in understudied regions of the world.

  Keywords: climate current period escalating change urgently need better understand modern drivers understudied regions world
• Linear and nonlinear effects of temperature and precipitation on ecosystem properties in tidal saline wetlands (2017) · doi

  Our literature review identifies several ecosystem properties and many regions of the world for which there are insufficient data to fully evaluate the influence of climatic drivers, and the identified data gaps can be used by scientists to guide future research.

  Keywords: literature review identifies several ecosystem properties regions world there insufficient fully evaluate influence climatic drivers
• Association of mortality with high temperatures in a temperate climate: England and Wales (2010) · doi

  It remains to be seen whether similar relationships fit other countries and climates or change over time, such as with climate change.

  Keywords: change remains seen whether similar relationships countries climates time climate