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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Prying Open the
Financial Risks of Climate Change</b><br>
Newsweek<br>
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</font><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"A European
and an American walk into their local bank. Each has a savings
account. The banks have the same antiseptic feel, their cash machines
make the same robotic moves. There is one fundamental difference
between the two, however -- how they account for the vulnerability of
their assets to climate change."</font></div>
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color="#000000">BioScience May 2006 / Vol. 56 No. 5 * <br>
© 2006 American Institute of Biological Sciences.</font></div>
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</font><font face="Verdana Bold" size="-1" color="#000000">Biophysical
and Biogeochemical Responses to Climate Change Depend on
Dispersal and Migration </font><font face="Verdana" size="-1"
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PAUL A. T. HIGGINS AND JOHN HARTE</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Abstract:
Different species, populations, and individuals disperse and migrate
at different rates. The rate of movement that occurs in response to
changes in climate, whether fast or slow, will shape the distribution
of natural ecosystems in the decades to come. .... We
demonstrate that the effectiveness of plant migration strongly
influences carbon storage, evapotranspiration, and the absorption of
solar radiation by the land surface. As a result, plant migration
affects the magnitude, and in some cases the sign, of feedbacks from
the land surface to the climate system.</font></div>
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