Climate Change and Migration

Along with human climate refugees, global warming is expected to prompt the movement of many plant populations as they struggle to survive under the new climatic regime. The role people may play in trying to reduce the number of extinctions is discussed in “When Worlds Collide”, an article by Douglas Fox for Conservation Magazine.

Thanks to Peter Wharton for suggesting this article.

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 1:24 PM on January 22, 2007

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