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Biodiversity protection and maintenance are important for the elimination of poverty and sustainable development. India is a nation rich in biodiversity and supports 18% of the world’s population over just 2.4% of the total land area in the world. It comprises notable sections of four global biodiversity hotspots with high taxa concentrations and some of the highest wild populations of large, widespread mammals. In India, the maintenance of its great biological resources and enhanced human growth and well-being are facing special, challenging challenges. Climate change brings to this problem an overall level. There are many expectations that climate change would have several detrimental effects on wildlife and harmful consequences on human nature. Biodiversity, however, is important both to climate change mitigation and to adaptation by its supportive ecosystem services. Climate change has a major effect on the availability of numerous earthly resources, especially water that supports the life of the earth. Biosphere transitions, habitats and natural resources have harmful consequences for human well-being and life quality. India is predicted to undergo global warming in the twenty-first century. India will also undergo more seasonal temperature fluctuations with more winter warmth than summers. In recent years, the longevity of heatwaves in India has extended with hotter and colder night temperatures and is forecast to continue. It is estimated that the overall temperature rise will be 2.33–4.78 °C with the concentrations doubling. These heatwaves will contribute to increased variability of the summer monsoon vine, which will have significant effects on Indian agriculture. Weather simulations expect a steady increase in concentration and temperature of carbon dioxide (CO2) worldwide. However, these simulations do not forecast changes in local weather patterns very well. Local climate conditions, such as rain, temperatures and the sun and the wind, along with the locally adaptable plant diversity, cropping systems and soil quality, can optimize food production so long as plants can be regulated by plant conditions. The most successful way of promoting swift improvements required for human populations to respond to future climate change is by maintaining biological diversity on all levels, from genes to biomes. India is well placed to face this challenge due to its vast diversity of human and biological processes.
An appraisal of socio-economic consequences is designed to illustrate the benefits and drawbacks of a policy to society as a whole and to different parties. An significant aspect of the studies that we perform is therefore a socio-economic impact review. Intrinsically dependent on the environment are biodiversity and biodiversity-based ecosystem resources. Climate change faced substantial environmental threats to biodiversity in the twentieth century, with a rise in effects as climate change progresses and could even intensify.
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Shukla, K., Shukla, S., Upadhyay, D., Singh, V., Mishra, A., Jindal, T. (2021). Socio-Economic Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. In: Choudhary, D.K., Mishra, A., Varma, A. (eds) Climate Change and the Microbiome. Soil Biology, vol 63. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76863-8_34
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