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Conserving the Stage: Climate Change and the Geophysical Underpinnings of Species Diversity

Posted 2015
Source
The Nature Conservancy
Author
Mark Anderson, Charles Ferree
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Research that shows strong correlations between geophysical characteristics and species diversity - currently focused in the Northeast, but being tested elsewhere - suggests that protecting geophysical settings will "conserve the stage" for current and future biodiversity and may be a robust alternative to species-level predictions.

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