An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Oklahoma has published a perspective article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences advocating for convergent research that integrates the fields of biogeography and behavioral ecology to more rapidly r
W. John Tennent
W. John Tennent, Biogeography and Conservation Laboratory, Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK;
email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, N.F. 25 (1/2): 79-96 (2004)
Published by California Academy of Sciences and the Christensen Research Institute. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences Number 15. 98 p. PDF
The vulnerability of marine biodiversity to accelerated rates of climatic change is poorly understood. By developing a new method for identifying extreme oceanic warming events during Earth's most recent deglaciation, and comparing these to 21st century projections, we show that future rates of ocean warming will disproportionately affect the most speciose marine communities, potentially threatening biodiversity in more than 70% of current-day global hotspots of marine species richness.