Why a Hotter World Will Mean More Extinctions, Tome: Science & Space. 20130513

http://science.time.com/2013/05/13/why-a-hotter-world-will-mean-more-extinctions/
By Bryan Walsh
.......................Even before climate change has really kicked in, human expansion had led to the destruction of habitat on land and in the sea, as we crowd out other species. By some estimates we’re already in the midst of the sixth great extinction wave, one that’s largely human caused, with extinction rates that are 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than the background rate of species loss.
So what will happen to those plants and animals if and when the climate really starts warming? According to a new study in Nature Climate Change, the answer is pretty simple: they will run out of habitable space, and many of them will die.


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