Climate Change and Biodiversity
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Title:
Climate Change and Biodiversity IPCC Technical Paper V
Creator:
Habiba Gitay ( Editor )
Avelino Suarez ( Editor )
Robert T. Watson
David Jon Dokken
Affiliation:
Australian National University
Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment
The World Bank
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Publisher:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Language:
English

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Summary:
At the global level, human activities have caused and will continue to cause a loss in biodiversity through, inter alia, land-use and land-cover change; soil and water pollution and degradation (including desertification), and air pollution; diversion of water to intensively managed ecosystems and urban systems; habitat fragmentation; selective exploitation of species; the introduction of non-native species; and stratospheric ozone depletion. The current rate of biodiversity loss is greater than the natural background rate of extinction. A critical question for this Technical Paper is how much might climate change (natural or human-induced) enhance or inhibit these losses in biodiversity?

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