Beyond Predictions: Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing Climate

@article{Dawson2011BeyondPB,
  title={Beyond Predictions: Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing Climate},
  author={T. Dawson and S. T. Jackson and J. House and I. Prentice and G. Mace},
  journal={Science},
  year={2011},
  volume={332},
  pages={53 - 58}
}
Climate change is predicted to become a major threat to biodiversity in the 21st century, but accurate predictions and effective solutions have proved difficult to formulate. Alarming predictions have come from a rather narrow methodological base, but a new, integrated science of climate-change biodiversity assessment is emerging, based on multiple sources and approaches. Drawing on evidence from paleoecological observations, recent phenological and microevolutionary responses, experiments, and… Expand
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