Arctic seabirds are less heat tolerant, more vulnerable to climate change
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Arctic seabirds are less heat tolerant, more vulnerable to climate change
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Authors: Dan Greenberg, Postdoctoral research associate, Simon Fraser University; Anna Hargreaves, Professor of Conservation Ecology & Evolution, McGill University; Arne Mooers, Professor, Biodiversity, Phylogeny & Evolution, Simon Fraser University, and Brian Leung, Associate professor, McGill University
There is real and justified concern about the state of our world’s ecosystems. Satellite imagery reveals few places left untouched by humanity. As the global human population and our overall consumption continue to grow in concert with the upheaval of our climate systems, the outlook for non-human species seems grim.
In response, scientists have tried to measure the state of global biodiversity. One of the biggest impact efforts has been the Living Planet Index (LPI), an ambitious project that compiles population trends for more than 4,000 vertebrate species around the world.