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Climate Change and Island Biological Diversity

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Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 115))

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Peters and Darling (1985), in a pioneering paper on The Greenhouse Effect and Nature Reserves, singled out island species as a special case of geographically restricted species which are particularly vulnerable to climate change — if the latitudinal or altitudinal migration required by the climate change exceeds the limits of the island, extinction necessarily follows. They recognized a mitigating circumstance, however, in that climatic changes on oceanic islands might be relatively mild because the sea would moderate the air temperature change.

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  1. National Biological Survey, Haleakala National Park Field Station, P.O. Box 369, Makawao, Maui, Hawaii, 96768, USA

    L. L. Loope

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Peter M. Vitousek

  2. National Biological Survey, Haleakala National Park, 96768, Makawao, Maui, HI, 96768, USA

    Lloyd L. Loope

  3. Department of Plant Ecology, Botanical Institute, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 2D, DK 1353, Copenhagen K, Denmark

    Henning Adsersen

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Loope, L.L. (1995). Climate Change and Island Biological Diversity. In: Vitousek, P.M., Loope, L.L., Adsersen, H. (eds) Islands. Ecological Studies, vol 115. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78963-2_10

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