Climate Change and Biodiversity in Europe Pilihan

http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00002476/01/reid.pdf


An interesting, transdisciplinary, globally-oriented, 18 pages article on
the relation between climate change and biodiversity in Europe, starting
with an overview of the climate change situation. It follows with an account
of how human intervention in nature affects biodiversity and lists the
challenges we'll be facing soon.


Here is an excerpt:


"Shifts in ecosystem boundaries could mean that protected areas, such as the
Swiss National Park, no longer contain the species and habitats they were es-
tablished to protect. The Pasterze Glacier has also retreated several hundred
metres since the 1970s, thus affecting the Hohe Tauern National Park in Aus-
tria (Dudley 2003). Under existing static conservation paradigms, little em-
phasis is placed on changing patterns of biodiversity. And few protected area
systems have been formulated with reference to climate change, even in coun-
tries where effects will probably be large (Hannah et al. 2002). The World
Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) argues that protected areas offer limited de-
fence against problems posed by rapid environmental change, and that pro-
tected areas themselves will need to adapt to meet the challenges posed by
global warming (Dudley 2003)."


Note: WWF is the World Wildlife Foundation, not a "World Wide Fund for Nature"