Extinction Risk from Climate Change. Thomas, C. D., Cameron, A., Green, R. E., Bakkenes, M., Beaumont, L. J., Collingham, Y. C., Erasmus, B. F. N., de Siqueira , M. F., Grainger, A., Hannah, L., Hughes, L., Huntley, B., van Jaarsveld , A. S., Midgley, G. F., Miles, L., Ortega-Huerta, M. A., Townsend Peterson, A., Phillips, O. L., & Williams, S. E. Nature, 427(6970):145–148, January, 2004.
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Climate change over the past 30 years has produced numerous shifts in the distributions and abundances of species and has been implicated in one species-level extinction. Using projections of species' distributions for future climate scenarios, we assess extinction risks for sample regions that cover some 20\,% of the Earth's terrestrial surface. Exploring three approaches in which the estimated probability of extinction shows a power-law relationship with geographical range size, we predict, on the basis of mid-range climate-warming scenarios for 2050, that 15-37\,% of species in our sample of regions and taxa will be 'committed to extinction'. When the average of the three methods and two dispersal scenarios is taken, minimal climate-warming scenarios produce lower projections of species committed to extinction (18%) than mid-range (24%) and maximum-change (35%) scenarios. These estimates show the importance of rapid implementation of technologies to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and strategies for carbon sequestration.
@article{thomasExtinctionRiskClimate2004,
  title = {Extinction Risk from Climate Change},
  author = {Thomas, Chris D. and Cameron, Alison and Green, Rhys E. and Bakkenes, Michel and Beaumont, Linda J. and Collingham, Yvonne C. and Erasmus, Barend F. N. and {de Siqueira}, Marinez F. and Grainger, Alan and Hannah, Lee and Hughes, Lesley and Huntley, Brian and {van Jaarsveld}, Albert S. and Midgley, Guy F. and Miles, Lera and {Ortega-Huerta}, Miguel A. and Townsend Peterson, A. and Phillips, Oliver L. and Williams, Stephen E.},
  year = {2004},
  month = jan,
  volume = {427},
  pages = {145--148},
  issn = {0028-0836},
  doi = {10.1038/nature02121},
  abstract = {Climate change over the past 30 years has produced numerous shifts in the distributions and abundances of species and has been implicated in one species-level extinction. Using projections of species' distributions for future climate scenarios, we assess extinction risks for sample regions that cover some 20\,\% of the Earth's terrestrial surface. Exploring three approaches in which the estimated probability of extinction shows a power-law relationship with geographical range size, we predict, on the basis of mid-range climate-warming scenarios for 2050, that 15-37\,\% of species in our sample of regions and taxa will be 'committed to extinction'. When the average of the three methods and two dispersal scenarios is taken, minimal climate-warming scenarios produce lower projections of species committed to extinction (18\%) than mid-range (24\%) and maximum-change (35\%) scenarios. These estimates show the importance of rapid implementation of technologies to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and strategies for carbon sequestration.},
  journal = {Nature},
  keywords = {*imported-from-citeulike-INRMM,~INRMM-MiD:c-165308,climate-change,climate-projections,communicating-uncertainty,fragmentation,invasive-species,irreversibility,species-distribution,species-extinction},
  lccn = {INRMM-MiD:c-165308},
  number = {6970}
}

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