Temperate Local Extinctions From Climate Change Are Outpacing Tropical Extinctions
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Temperate local extinctions from climate change are outpacing tropical extinctions
Climate change may soon cause a catastrophic loss of global biodiversity. For decades, tropical species have widely been considered more vulnerable than temperate species. However, some studies have suggested the opposite. Using a global-scale dataset from resurvey studies spanning 5,151 plant and animal species encompassing 39,157 sites, we show that climate-related local extinctions were significantly more frequent among temperate (49% of surv…
Researchers inspect 5,100 species; found massive climate change impact
Time to overturn everything climate scientists believed they knew: temperate species are not less vulnerable to climate change but more. It does not look good. “The world has changed since 2016,” says John Wiens, the senior author of a new study published in Nature Climate. “There’s been more heating in temperate zones, especially at higher latitudes, and the pattern may have simply flipped in recent decades…” as researchers are clawing to under…
A survey of more than 5,100 animal and plant species around the world reveals that, contrary to what was thought, temperate zone species are more vulnerable to local extinctions due to global warming than tropical zones. This would be explained by the fact that temperate regions are warming up [...] This article Against all expectations, global warming would cause more local extinctions in temperate regions than in the tropics appeared first on …
Temperate ecosystems appear to be taking a bigger hit from climate change than scientists previously thought. New research documents widespread local extinctions of plants and animals, highlighting that the effects of global warming are not a future scenario, but a reality that is already shaping life on Earth. So-called “local extinctions,” in which a species disappears from a specific area even though it survives elsewhere, are now being recor…
© Research and Knowledge / KI New study shows that climate change replaces local populations in temperate regions much more frequently than in the tropics.
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