 | Ismail Serageldin, Alfredo Sfeir-Younis - 1996 - 328 pages
...representative number of systems: natural ecosystems (forests and coral reefs), food security, sea level, and human health. Natural Ecosystems: Forests The...individual species respond to changes in climate. There will probably be reductions in biological diversity (particularly species diversity) and changes... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - 1996 - 492 pages
...small to moderate; - natural ecosystems: the composition, geographic distribution and productivity of many ecosystems will shift as individual species respond to changes in climate. There will likely be reductions in biological diversity and in the goods and services ecosystems provide... | |
 | 1997 - 160 pages
...Natural ecosystems will be degraded because the composition, geographic distribution, and productivity of many ecosystems will shift as individual species respond to changes in climate. This may lead to reductions in biological diversity and in the goods and services ecosystems can provide... | |
 | G. O. Obasi, E. Dowdeswell - 1998 - 72 pages
...and mean annual precipitation can be correlated with the distribution of the world's major biomes. The composition and geographic distribution of many...individual species respond to changes in climate; there will likely be reductions in biological diversity and in the goods and services that ecosystems... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - 1999 - 1260 pages
...the conservation of biological diversity. The composition, geographic distribution, and productivity of many ecosystems will shift as individual species respond to changes in climate. These will likely lead to reduction in biological diversity and in the goods and services ecosystems... | |
 | Sarah L. Fowler, Tim M. Reed, Frances Dipper - 2002 - 282 pages
...further up the food chain. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Everett 1997), the composition and geographic distribution of many...individual species respond to changes in climate, with reductions in biological diversity. Some ecological systems may not reach a new equilibrium for... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - 2003 - 108 pages
...regions, Small Island States, Temperate Asia, and Tropical Asia. Because of uncertainties associated with regional projections of climate change, the IPCC assessed...services ecosystems provide society, eg, sources of food, finer, medicines, recreation and tourism, and ecological services such as controlling nutrient cycling,... | |
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Let me now briefly discuss the implications of climate change for a representative number of systems: natural ecosystems (forests and coral reefs), food security, water resources, sea level rise, and human health. 