Biodiversity: climate change or habitat loss - which will kill more species?
Habitat loss and climate change both kill off species. New studies show that the latter is a potent threat. Worse, its victims will likely be mostly those not presently threatened by habitat loss.
Pimm
Stuart L
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Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Room A301 LSRC building, Box 90328, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA. StuartPimm@aol.com
D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D004463:Ecology; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D017752:Greenhouse Effect; D011157:Population Dynamics