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May 20, 2004

Climate Change Boom or Bust for Biodiversity

How terrestrial vegetation responds to climate change is a major factor in whether changes already in the pipeline can be adapted too or will prove cataclysmic. This is a huge question, for which the answer has major import for humanity's future and prospects for achieving global ecological sustainability. Clearly stabilizing emissions is of foremost importance given such uncertainty.

Climate Change Boom or Bust for Biodiversity?

Will climate change trigger mass extinctions or will new life bloom in its wake?


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I am looking for data on deforestation in Amazonia from 1970 to present. I was told Fearnside was recording this in the '70's. The stuff posted with the Brazilian gov't. won't due...

Thank you, KS Rolph