Bay Area Indymedia: Two new scientific papers have emphasised the threat to biodiversity from the impacts of climate change and habitat loss. A study by US ecologist Mark Urban identified that predictions of the loss of animal and plant diversity due to climate change may be greatly underestimated as most predictions of the rate of extinctions don't take into account species competition and movement. A second key global study by University of Queensland and Australian CSIRO scientists emphasised the link between current......
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Climate change and habitat loss threaten biodiversity, extinction rate underestimated
Posted by Bay Area Indymedia: None Given on January 6th, 2012
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