Extinction risks from climate change: macroecological and historical insights.
Human-induced climate change may threaten a large proportion of Earth's biota, but the uncertainties involved in projecting the future geographical distributions of species make quantitative predictions of extinction risk difficult to make. I discuss how insight from recent advances in macroecology and knowledge about species responses to past climate change can help predict extinction risks more accurately.
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden. roland.jansson@emg.umu.se
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