Are current projections of climate change-impacts on biodiversity m...(edict the effects of climate change on b...)

Date:11/21/2007

edict the effects of climate change on biodiversity. If, as shown in our study, the mechanisms underlying contemporary patterns of species richness are in fact strongly influenced by the history of climate, then current-climate predictions may be seriously misleading and alternative approaches to predict the effects of climate change on biodiversity must be developed.

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Contact: Davina Quarterman davina.quarterman@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com 01-865-476-307 Wiley-Blackwell Source:Eurekalert

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