Climate Change and Threatened Birds

U of California at San Diego December 10, 2007

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/12-07ThreatenedBirds.asp

Two concluding paragraphs:

Jetz added that range maps are becoming especially important for ecologists making projections of the impact of climate change on the health of specific populations and that these two studies demonstrate that conservationists need to be especially careful when making predictions about future risks to species during rapid climate change.

“If we’re starting with a range estimate for a population that is much larger than it truly is, then we have started with the wrong parameter for our future projections of climate change,” he said. “If you’ve already started with an overestimate of the range, then there’s a real danger in understimating the risks of extinction in future projections of climate change.”

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