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Quantifying the effects of climate and anthropogenic change on regional species loss in China [1]

Human-induced environmental and climate change are widely blamed for causing rapid global biodiversity loss, but direct estimation of the proportion of biodiversity lost at local or regional scales are still infrequent. This prevents us from quantifying the main and interactive effects of anthropogenic environmental and climate change on species loss. Here, we demonstrate that the estimated proportion of species loss of 252 key protected vertebrate species at a county level of China during the past half century was 27.2% for all taxa, 47.7% for mammals, 28.8% for amphibians and reptiles and 19.8% for birds. Both human population increase and species richness showed significant positive correlations with species loss of all taxa combined, mammals, birds, and amphibians and reptiles.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
25/07/2018
Jinxing He [3], Chuan Yan [4], Marcel Holyoak & et al [5]
PLoS ONE [6]
1-12
Tags:
Climate Change [7], Biodiversity [8], Climate Impacts [9], China [10], Amphibians [11], Reptiles [12], Mammals [13], Endangered Species [14], Birds [15], Rainfall Pattern [16], Global Warming [17]
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/quantifying-effects-climate-and-anthropogenic-change-regional-species-loss-china
[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0199735
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/jinxing-he
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/chuan-yan
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/marcel-holyoak-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/plos-one
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biodiversity
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-impacts
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/china
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/amphibians
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/reptiles
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mammals
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/endangered-species
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/birds
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rainfall-pattern
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global-warming