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. 2009 Feb 24:1:16.
doi: 10.3410/B1-16.

Climate change and biodiversity conservation: impacts, adaptation strategies and future research directions

Shannon M Hagerman  1 , Kai M A Chan
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Climate change and biodiversity conservation: impacts, adaptation strategies and future research directions

Shannon M Hagerman et al. F1000 Biol Rep. .

Abstract

The impacts of climate change pose fundamental challenges for current approaches to biodiversity conservation. Changing temperature and precipitation regimes will interact with existing drivers such as habitat loss to influence species distributions despite their protection within reserve boundaries. In this report we summarize a suite of current adaptation proposals for conservation, and highlight some key issues to be resolved.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Diagrammatic representation of some of the global change drivers, mediating drivers and biodiversity (pattern) responses in terrestrial ecosystems
Within and between each of these levels, the global change drivers, mediating drivers and responses can interact and feed back to each other.
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