[ANFES] Wildlife in a changing climate

For the past twenty years climate change has been high on the
international
agenda. Together with desertification, soil degradation and
biodiversity loss, it is
widely recognized as the major environmental threat the world is
facing. Evidence
is increasing that warming and other climate-related changes are
happening more
quickly than anticipated, and prognoses are becoming worse.
This publication analyses and presents how climate change affects or
will likely
affect wild animals and their habitats. Although climate change has
already been
observed and monitored over several decades, there are not many long-
term studies
on how the phenomenon is affecting wildlife. There is growing
evidence, however,
that climate change significantly exacerbates other major human-
induced pressures
such as encroachment, deforestation, forest degradation, land-use
change, pollution
and overexploitation of wildlife resources. Case studies are presented
in this
book that describe some of the body of evidence, in some instances,
and provide
projections of likely scenarios, in others.
More at:
http://www.fao.org/forestry/30032-09bddb25a42eb47ba6cfc78536c0cbe7.pdf