Near-extinct African amphibians 'invisible' under climate change
Saturday, September 6, 2014 - 00:31
in Biology & Nature
An international team of researchers has found that the majority of threatened species are 'invisible' when using modern methods to predict species distributions under climate change. Using African amphibians as a case study, the researchers found that more than 90 per cent of the species listed as threatened on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species are omitted by the most popular tools for species distribution modelling.