Liffrea
08-06-2010, 04:02 PM
By 2100 only 18% to 45% of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today, according to a new study led by Greg Asner at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology. The research combined new deforestation and selective logging data with climate-change projections. It is the first study to consider these combined effects for all humid tropical forest ecosystems and can help conservationists pinpoint where their efforts will be most effective. The study is published in the August 5, 2010, issue of Conservation Letters.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100805172957.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100805172957.htm