Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation


"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise"
                                                       Aldo Leopold, 1949

Contents

Executive summary



  1. The threat of climate change .........................

  2. The ecological impacts of climate change .............

  3. Worldwide loss of biodiversity .......................

  4. Ecological limits to climate change ..................

  5. Ecosystem limits .....................................

  6. Ecosystem sensitivity ................................

  7. Adaptability as measured by migration and distribution

  8. Linking conservation biology with the climate change debate ...............................................
landscape: Lake
Acknowledgements


Appendix 1. ..........................................

Conservation and the Climate Convention

Appendix 2. ..........................................

Some examples of ecological tolerances and thresholds
in relation to climatic variables and global change


References



Copyright 1996, The World Wide Fund For Nature


Copyright 1996, The World Wide Fund For Nature