Publication Date:
2013-08-03
Description:
As climates change across already stressed ecosystems, there is no doubt that species will be affected, but to what extent and which will be most vulnerable remain uncertain. The fossil record suggests that most species persisted through past climate change, whereas forecasts of future impacts predict large-scale range reduction and extinction. Many species have altered range limits and phenotypes through 20th-century climate change, but responses are highly variable. The proximate causes of species decline relative to resilience remain largely obscure; however, recent examples of climate-associated species decline can help guide current management in parallel with ongoing research.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Moritz, Craig -- Agudo, Rosa -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Aug 2;341(6145):504-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1237190.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Research School of Biology and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. gekkojessie@gmail.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23908228" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Biological Evolution
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Birds
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*Climate Change
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*Ecosystem
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*Extinction, Biological
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Forecasting
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Mammals
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Temperature
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
