Extinction risk from climate change - PubMed (original) (raw)
. 2004 Jan 8;427(6970):145-8.
doi: 10.1038/nature02121.
Alison Cameron, Rhys E Green, Michel Bakkenes, Linda J Beaumont, Yvonne C Collingham, Barend F N Erasmus, Marinez Ferreira De Siqueira, Alan Grainger, Lee Hannah, Lesley Hughes, Brian Huntley, Albert S Van Jaarsveld, Guy F Midgley, Lera Miles, Miguel A Ortega-Huerta, A Townsend Peterson, Oliver L Phillips, Stephen E Williams
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- DOI: 10.1038/nature02121
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Extinction risk from climate change
Chris D Thomas et al. Nature. 2004.
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Abstract
Climate change over the past approximately 30 years has produced numerous shifts in the distributions and abundances of species and has been implicated in one species-level extinction. Using projections of species' distributions for future climate scenarios, we assess extinction risks for sample regions that cover some 20% of the Earth's terrestrial surface. Exploring three approaches in which the estimated probability of extinction shows a power-law relationship with geographical range size, we predict, on the basis of mid-range climate-warming scenarios for 2050, that 15-37% of species in our sample of regions and taxa will be 'committed to extinction'. When the average of the three methods and two dispersal scenarios is taken, minimal climate-warming scenarios produce lower projections of species committed to extinction ( approximately 18%) than mid-range ( approximately 24%) and maximum-change ( approximately 35%) scenarios. These estimates show the importance of rapid implementation of technologies to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and strategies for carbon sequestration.
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