[MCN] Coal threatens the forests

[Lance Olsen]

Coal provides jobs. Forests provide jobs. Coal 
threatens the forests, and farms, and fish, and 
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" Our results showed that urban expansion around 
protected areas will continue to be a major 
threat, and expand by 67% under business-as-usual 
conditions."

Sebastián Martinuzzi et al. Scenarios of future 
land use change around United States' protected 
areas. Biological Conservation 184 (2015) 446-455

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"The failure to give adequate consideration to widespread cumulative time-lags
often masks the full extent of biodiversity 
changes that have already been triggered."

Diversity and Distributions, May 2015
Historical legacies accumulate to shape future 
biodiversity in an era of rapid global change
Franz Essl, Stefan Dullinger, Wolfgang Rabitsch, 
Philip E. Hulme, Petr Pysek, John R. U. Wilson 
and David M. Richardson

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ddi.12312/abstract