Identifying the world's most climate change vulnerable species: a systematic trait-based assessment of all birds, amphibians and corals.

Identifying the world's most climate change vulnerable species: a systematic trait-based assessment of all birds, amphibians and corals.

Climate change will have far-reaching impacts on biodiversity, including increasing extinction rates. Current approaches to quantifying such impacts focus on measuring exposure to climatic change and largely ignore the biological differences between species that may significantly increase or reduce...

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Main Authors: Wendy B Foden, Stuart H M Butchart, Simon N Stuart, Jean-Christophe Vié, H Resit Akçakaya, Ariadne Angulo, Lyndon M DeVantier, Alexander Gutsche, Emre Turak, Long Cao, Simon D Donner, Vineet Katariya, Rodolphe Bernard, Robert A Holland, Adrian F Hughes, Susannah E O'Hanlon, Stephen T Garnett, Cagan H Sekercioğlu, Georgina M Mace
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3680427?pdf=render

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