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Study: Climate Change Is Having Significant Impact on Biodiversity

U-T San Diego: Plants and animals are shifting their ranges and life cycles in response to climate change, creating clashes between unfamiliar creatures or mismatches between animals and their food sources, according to a new national biodiversity report. The analysis could expand the scope of conservation efforts, which for 40 years has focused predominantly on habitat changes, local wildlife experts said. “Climate change has this incredibly large footprint of effects,” said Megan Owen, conservation program...

Climate change disrupting biodiversity

U-T San Diego: Plants and animals are shifting their ranges and life cycles in response to climate change, creating clashes between unfamiliar creatures or mismatches between animals and their food sources, according to a biodiversity report released this month. More than 60 federal, academic and other scientists contributed to the national climate report, which will be used as scientific input for the 2013 National Climate Assessment, a federally required analysis of climate research. “Biodiversity and ecosystems...