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dc.contributor.authorMenon, Shaily
dc.contributor.authorSoberón, Jorge
dc.contributor.authorLi, Xingong
dc.contributor.authorPeterson, A. Townsend
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-20T20:18:17Z
dc.date.available2010-08-20T20:18:17Z
dc.date.issued2010-02-25
dc.identifier.citationMenon, S., J. Soberón, X. Li, and A. T. Peterson. 2010b. Preliminary global assessment of terrestrial biodiversity consequences of sea level rise mediated by climate change. Biodiversity and Conservation. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-010-9790-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/6570
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at www.springerlink.com Biodiversity and Conservation Volume 19, Number 6, 1599-1609, DOI: 10.1007/s10531-010-9790-4
dc.description.abstractConsiderable attention has focused on the climatic effects of global climate change on biodiversity, but few analyses and no broad assessments have evaluated the effects of sea level rise on biodiversity. Taking advantage of new maps of marine intrusion under scenarios of 1 m and 6 m sea level rise, we calculated areal losses for all ecoregions globally, with areal losses for particular ecoregions ranging from nil to complete. Marine intrusion is a global phenomenon, but is most prominent in Southeast Asia and nearby islands, eastern North America, northeastern South America, and western Alaska. Making assumptions regarding responses to reduced distributional area by species endemic to ecoregions, we estimated likely numbers of extinction caused by sea level rise, and found that marine-intrusion-caused extinctions of narrow endemics is most prominent in northeastern South America, although anticipated extinctions in smaller numbers are scattered worldwide. This assessment serves as a complement to recent estimates of losses owing to changing climatic conditions, considering a dimension of biodiversity consequences of climate change that has not previously been taken into account.
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subjectSea-level change
dc.subjectMarine intrusion
dc.subjectBiodiversity
dc.subjectEcoregions
dc.subjectEndemic species
dc.subjectExtinction
dc.titlePreliminary global assessment of terrestrial biodiversity consequences of sea level rise mediated by climate change
dc.title.alternativePreliminary global assessment of biodiversity consequences of sea level rise mediated by climate change
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorPeterson, A. Townsend
kusw.kuauthorLi, Xingong
kusw.oastatusna
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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