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Global climate change and biodiversity
Source: Copyright 2010, New Nation
Date: March 8, 2010
Byline: Muhammad Selim Hossain
Original URL: Status ONLINE
Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim, an eminent scientist of Bangladesh and nature lover notes that about 40 per cent of about 44 thousand species of the world are at stake due to climatic and other disasters. Human-induced climate change tends to reduce the genetic diversity of individual species. Again, successful adaptation to climate change may depend to a greater extent on the ability of species to disperse to new areas but this ability is also increasingly impeded by human-induced landscape change. If we can't mitigate and tackle climatic disasters properly, global biotic community will seriously be in danger in future.
The 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment estimates that by the end of this century, climate change will be the main cause of biodiversity loss. But as climate changes, the value of biodiversity for food and agriculture will increase.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that a significant number of species will be at risk of ...
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