Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

A force to fight global warming

  • Opinion
  • Published:

From Nature

View current issue Submit your manuscript

Natural ecosystems and biodiversity must be made a bulwark against climate change, not a casualty of it, argue Will R. Turner, Michael Oppenheimer and David S. Wilcove.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Figure 1

Sources: WWF; UNEP-WCMC; Waycott, M. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106, 12377–12381 (2009); Millenium Ecosystem Assessment; IUCN Red List

References

  1. Transparency International Global Corruption Report 2009 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009).

  2. Hansen, J. et al. Open Atmos. Sci. J. 2, 217–231 (2008).

    Google Scholar 

  3. Locke, H. & Mackey, B. Int. J. Wilderness 15, 7–13 (2009).

    Google Scholar 

  4. Das, S. & Vincent, J. R. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106, 7357–7360 (2009).

    Google Scholar 

  5. Costanza, R. et al. Ambio 37, 241–248 (2008).

    Google Scholar 

  6. Sailors' historic scourge may hold the key to bioenergy future (Press release, Univ. York, 2009); available at http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2009/gribbles-bioenergy

  7. IUCN 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (2008); available at http://www.iucnredlist.org.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Will R. Turner is director of global priorities at the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500 Arlington, Virginia 22202, USA. w.turner@conservation.org ,

    Will R. Turner

  2. Michael Oppenheimer is Albert G. Milbank professor of geosciences and international affairs ,

    Michael Oppenheimer

  3. David S. Wilcove is professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.,

    David S. Wilcove

Authors
  1. Will R. Turner
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Michael Oppenheimer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. David S. Wilcove
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

Michael Oppenheimer is a science adviser to the US Environmental Defense Fund, and receives remuneration from them.

Additional information

See Editorial, page 251 , and News Feature, page 266 . For the whole biodiversity special, see http://www.nature.com/darwin .

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Turner, W., Oppenheimer, M. & Wilcove, D. A force to fight global warming. Nature 462, 278–279 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/462278a

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/462278a

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation