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NASA: Climate Change May Flip 40% of Earth’s Major Ecosystems This Century
Posted by Think Progress: Rolf Schuttenhelm on December 26th, 2011
Think Progress: The results of studies that try to quantify the effects of climate change on biodiversity loss - which include damage to the micro scale level of subspecies and genetic variation - are perhaps most shocking.
When, however, you focus on the response to climate change at the macro level, the ecosystem level, you get a better understanding of what is one of the major drivers of that biodiversity loss: forced migrations. And even here, the numbers may be larger than one would expect, as a new assessment...
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