The double threat of climate and land use change enhances risks to biodiversity

Monday, August 18, 2014 - 09:51 in Earth & Climate

Researchers from Aarhus University, Denmark, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, have developed a new approach to measure the combined exposure of species to both climate and land use change. This new metric was used to assess the risk to species in the face of combined rates of climate and land use for the US from 2001 to 2051.

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