Extinction risk from climate change
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...Other estimates, such as those by Thomas et al. (2004), would yield higher estimates of insect extinctions....
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...of habitat per TW hr/yr). While many studies have quantified the likely effect of climate change on the Earth's biodiversity due to climate-driven habitat loss, concluding that a large proportion of species could be driven extinct...
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...When Thomas et al. (2004) reported that a large percentage of species may be “committed to extinction” within 50 years, many news agencies misreported that over a quarter of all life forms would “be extinct” by this time (Ladle et al. 2004)....
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...Climate change is acting in an environment already threatened by other processes (Thomas et al. 2004, Lewis 2006)....
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...Most models do not take these considerations into account, and those that do have used simple assumptions (no migration, full migration; Thomas et al. 2004)....
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...Species’ extinction risk formed a key part of Stern’s review of climate change impacts for the British government (2006), and numerous SDM studies were cited (e.g., Pearson and Dawson 2003, Thuiller et al. 2004, Thomas et al. 2004, McClean et al. 2005, Pearson et al. 2006)....
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...Some studies have pooled multiple models or applied other principles (notably species–area relationships) to extrapolate global extinction rates from climate change (Thomas et al. 2004)....
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...Thomas et al. (2004) concluded that climate change could extinguish 9 to 52% of terrestrial species, with species having poor dispersal abilities falling near the upper end of the range....
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...…greatly extended computer power has emboldened a new generation of bioclimatic niche-based modellers to predict changes in species distribution and prevalence under a warming climate using correlative methods (e.g., Bakkenes et al., 2002; Thomas et al., 2004; see also Chapter 4, Section 4.4.11)....
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...gif" NDATA ITEM> ]> Climate change over the past ∼30 years has produced numerous shifts in the distributions and abundances of specie...
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