Extinction risk from climate change
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...Understanding cumulative impacts will be increasingly important as, for example, future changes in climate will be overlaid on already heavily modified landscapes (Thomas et al. 2004)....
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...…knowledge fails to be adopted on the ground (Fazey et al. 2006), (ii) it is impossible to study in detail all species in all landscapes and (iii) human landscape modification is accelerating, as are its potential interactions with other drivers such as climate change (Thomas et al. 2004)....
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...This highlights the importance of active adaptive experimental management for landscape conservation (see below)....
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...…to force species distributions towards higher elevations and latitudes, leading to extinctions of species whose future habitable climate space becomes too small or too isolated from their current geographical ranges (Hill et al. 2002; Midgley et al. 2002; Williams et al. 2003; Thomas et al. 2004)....
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...Global extinctions of some smaller animals are attributed to current warming (Pounds et al. 2006), and the experiment is still in progress, with simulations suggesting that substantial extinction may result (Thomas et al. 2004)....
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