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2 Documented Current Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
Pages 17-21

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... Range shifts Climate change is driving the most massive relocation of species to occur without direct human assistance since the beginning of the current interglacial (warm) period (Parmesan 2006)
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... . As sea ice gets thinner and shrinks in area, so too shrink animal populations that use ice as their home, including the polar bear and the ringed seal in the Arctic (Stirling et al.
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... In the future these zones move northward but also upward in altitude, replacing existing zones and creating new zones. At an elevation of 1000 m currently one sees subalpine vegetation in the south and fell-field in the north.
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... SOURCE: ACIA 2004. Seasonal Shifts Climate change is also driving changes in phenology.
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... . Missing the peak of food availability means fewer chicks are surviving and the pied flycatcher population is declining.
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Key Terms

  • days earlier
  • range shifts
  • current interglacial
  • seasonal shifts
  • sea ice

  • nature preserves
  • relative abundance
  • ringed seal
  • surpass responses
  • strongly affected

  • populations reflect
  • boreal tundra
  • widely documented
  • species ranges
  • pied flycatcher

  • hardest hit
  • six days
  • broader issue
  • climate conditions
  • timed based

  • springs affect
  • biological events
  • earlier appearance
  • replacing existing
  • alaska range

  • obvious consequence
  • earlier springs
  • current locations
  • autumn changes
  • numerous species


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