Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Europe's Habitat and Wildlife Are Vulnerable to Climate Change

This is a map of the vulnerability of ecosystems to biome shifts due to climate change and of habitat loss due to land cover change. (Credit: University of Southampton) Click to enlarge.
New research has identified areas of the Earth that are high priorities for conservation in the face of climate change.  Europe is particularly vulnerable, as it has the lowest fraction of its land area, only four per cent, of any continent in ‘refugia’ – areas of biological diversity that support many species where natural environmental conditions remain relatively constant during times of great environmental change.

Europe's Habitat and Wildlife Are Vulnerable to Climate Change

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