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.
Jansson
Roland
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Department of Ecology and Environmental Science Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden. roland.jansson@emg.umu.se