Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes

Preservation of biodiversity by expanding protected areas is complicated by expected climate change that could dissociate ecoregion or biome from climate conditions in over half of land area, according to analyses of spatial climate analogs

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Drew S. Lyons, Clark Hollenberg, Carlos Carroll, Sean A. Parks, John T. Abatzoglou, Katherine Hegewisch, Josh Gage
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature 2021-09-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00270-z