Climate Change Is Already Causing Widespread Local Extinction in Plant and Animal Species
Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 16:52
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Extinctions related to climate change have already happened in hundreds of plant and animal species around the world. New research, publishing on December 8th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, shows that local extinctions have already occurred in 47% of the 976 plant and animal species studied.