BIOC58H3 Lecture 8: Lecture 8
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Today: future projections for vegetation, national parks and reserves, now we will look at the future projections re: eco regions in the world, actual biological impacts of climate change we are observing right now. This portion will cover the end of this one and the start of next one. I indicated the . pdf so hopefully you got that. Tree and animal species are controlled by climate. If you get shifts in climate you will have shifts in these eco systems. These are not unusual and we have seen these shifts continuously for the last 1. 8 million years and in fact longer than that. There is a problem for biological life now. The first major problem is the speed at which change will occur in climate. It will be so fast it will dwarf anything seen in the past. Second major problem is that you no longer have a continuous land area to go across.