[APWG] Wildlife in a Changing Climate - FAO 2012

[Pamela Zevit]

( invasive species starts on page 51)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. pp.1-124
Forestry Papers. Rome, 2012
Ed. E Kaeslin et al.
 <http://www.fao.org/forestry/30143-0bb7fb87ece780936a2f55130c87caf46.pdf>
http://www.fao.org/forestry/30143-0bb7fb87ece780936a2f55130c87caf46.pdf
For the past twenty years climate change has been high on the international
agenda. Together with desertification, soil degradation and biodiversity loss, it is
widely recognized as the major environmental threat the world is facing. Evidence
is increasing that warming and other climate-related changes are happening more
quickly than anticipated, and prognoses are becoming worse.
This publication analyses and presents how climate change affects or will likely
affect wild animals and their habitats. Although climate change has already been
observed and monitored over several decades, there are not many long-term studies
on how the phenomenon is affecting wildlife. There is growing evidence, however,
that climate change significantly exacerbates other major human-induced pressures
such as encroachment, deforestation, forest degradation, land-use change, pollution
and overexploitation of wildlife resources. Case studies are presented in this
book that describe some of the body of evidence, in some instances, and provide
projections of likely scenarios, in others.
 

Pamela Zevit, R.P. Bio 
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Coquitlam BC Canada
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