Extinctions expected to increase strongly over the century
Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
The loss of biodiversity will continue in the 21st Century. Global-scale extinctions will increase strongly, the average species abundance will decline and their distribution will be disturbed. Scientists thought until recently that the complexity of biodiversity made it unfeasible to predict future trends. Now, however, like the climatologists, life science specialists believe they are able to predict future situations.