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<div><font face="Geneva"><b>Study: Temperature a dominant influence on
bird diversity loss in Mexico</b></font><font face="Arial"><br>
</font><font face="Geneva">UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS --</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva">Public Release: 7-Jul-2015</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva">A wide-ranging study of gains and losses of
populations of bird species across Mexico in the 20th century shows
shifts in temperature due to global climate change are the primary
environmental influence on the distributions of bird
species.</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva"><b>Full release here:</b></font></div>
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>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/uok-sta070715.php</u></font
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<div><font face="Geneva"><b>Excerpt from the full release:</b><br>
"When you design protected areas, like national parks or
biospheres for biodiversity conservation, that design needs to take
into account how climates are changing," he said. "They've
done major planning, more than in the U.S., for present-day
distributions of species. But climate change must be taken into
account because those distributions are changing."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Geneva">JOURNAL</font><font
face="Arial">:</font><font face="Geneva"> Science
Advances</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><b>Full journal article open access
here:</b></font></div>
<div><font
face="Arial"><u
>http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/4/e1400071.abstract</u></font
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"Conservationists must therefore assess both current and future
distributions of species."<br>
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"One critical question is whether models Š can Š provide robust
predictions of future distributions under climate change."<br>
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Miguel B. Araújo and Carsten Rahbek.<br>
"How Does Climate Change Affect Biodiversity?"<br>
<i>Science</i>, Vol. 313, September 8, 2006<br>
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