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Climate change and the ecologist

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The evidence for rapid climate change now seems overwhelming. Global temperatures are predicted to rise by up to 4 °C by 2100, with associated alterations in precipitation patterns. Assessing the consequences for biodiversity, and how they might be mitigated, is a Grand Challenge in ecology.

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Figure 1: The main factors, or 'drivers', affecting biodiversity.
Figure 2: The probabilistic approach to forecasting biodiversity.
Figure 3: The complex web of factors affecting human health and well-being, biodiversity and ecosystems.

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  1. Wilfried Thuiller is at the Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, UMR-CNRS 5553, Université J. Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. wilfried.thuiller@ujf-grenoble.fr,

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Thuiller, W. Climate change and the ecologist. Nature 448, 550–552 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/448550a

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