Effect of climate change is an interlinked process both between plants and animals. Probably the invertebrates species shows the initial cue by their decline in numbers, which later affects the plants due to loss of pollinators which causes lack of food source, lack of food source affects invertebrates, vertebrates including humans. Thus effect of climate change is equal to plants, animals and humans.
I think the plants are most resistant and most adaptive to environmental change because their longest evolution times on the earth. Then come the animals especially the insects and then come the humans as they are the most recent creatures on the earth. Therefore they are the less adaptive. What compensates for their less adaptability is their greater intelligence.
"7 Species Hit Hard by Climate Change—Including One That's Already Extinct
Coral, polar bears, and frogs are among the species hit hardest.
BY CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Climate change is doing "widespread and consequential" harm to animals and plants, which are struggling to adapt to new conditions.
The report, from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), finds that many life-forms are moving north or into deeper waters to survive as their habitats shift.
They're also being forced to change their behaviors. For instance, many birds are nesting, breeding, and migrating earlier as spring arrives sooner than before. (Related: "Ten U.S. Species Feeling Global Warming's Heat.")
"Evidence of climate change impacts is strongest and most comprehensive for natural systems," the report said. (See: "New Climate Change Report Warns of Dire Consequences.")
Current research suggests that winners in this transformation will be adaptable species that are expanding their ranges, including many weeds and pests, and also cold-sensitive, invasive species like the Burmese python in Florida, said Peter Alpert, a program director in environmental biology at the U.S. National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia.
The losers, Alpert said, will likely be the species that are highly specialized in what they eat or where they live, especially those whose habitats disappear completely.
That might include species such as koalas, which depend mainly on eucalyptus for survival, and the many animal and plant species that live only on isolated mountaintops".
" ( https://www.massaudubon.org/our-conservation-work/climate-change/effects-of-climate-change/on-birds )Warming temperatures, shifting seasons, changing precipitation, and rising sea levels are disrupting the behavior of our feathered friends and the ecosystems that support them.
More than 30% of our breeding birds are already declining and are in need of conservation action. The effect of climate change on birds will become more severe in the future unless we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and protect the natural resources birds need to adapt to change.
Of 143 breeding bird species evaluated in the State of the Birds 3report, 43% (61 species) are Highly Vulnerable to the effects of climate change predicted to occur by 2050. Of the other species, 15% (22 species) are Likely Vulnerable and 42% (60 species) are Least Vulnerable".
I think that the whole discourse is happening because humans are affected. Even when we reflect on change to biodiversity, or coral reefs, usually it is done to see such changes ass they affect humans.
Everywhere in the world when appears to be a changed in the climate ,it affects the human body , in a substantial manner .Initial stage headache , cold & cough remain the first effect on human body . Animal get also affected & in case of pet animal it may be taken care of by there owner.
Plants to be taken care of by the gardener but in case of trees , flowers & plants on the road care or having an influence of the climate ,it takes there shape in a regular manner .