impact of climate change on biodiversity
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SEMINAR ON‘‘Impact of climate change on biodiversity’’
Presented by Mohammed Inzamamuddin
M.Sc. 3rd Semester Environmental ScienceSession 2015-2017
Department of Environmental ScienceUniversity Teaching Department
Sarguja Vishwavidyalaya
International ozone day
CONTENTS• How to manage Earth’s Temperature • Worldwide Carbon Emissions• Greenhouse effect• What is global warming • Values of Biodiversity• Impact of climate change on forest seen from space• Effect of Climate Change on Species: A case study• Impact of climate change on biodiversity• References
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Manage Earth’s Temperature
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Energy
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Worldwide Carbon EmissionsCa
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Earth’s Temperature
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RadiationCooling
Greenhouse Gases - CO2 Methane Nitrous oxide etc…
Values of Biodiversity
• Biodiversity provides excellent conditions for and drives the processes that sustain species survival.
• Biodiversity provides for ecological, economic and cultural values to the world’s community.
• Climate change is changing species distribution through shifting habitat, changing life cycles, and development of new physical traits,
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Values of Biodiversity
• People need ecosystems for adaptation and ecosystems need people.
• Biodiversity plays a major role in meeting human needs directly while maintaining the ecological processes upon which our survival depends.
• Biodiversity is a national asset and a powerful contributor to economic development, provision of natural resource, ecological processes, and improving human wellbeing.
British Columbia as seen by NASA’s Terra satellite
Impact of climate change on forest seen from space
Effect of Climate Change on Species: A case study
• Higher temperatures speed up reproductive cycles
• Fewer cold snaps that kill beetles. • Drought weakens trees, making
them more susceptible to beetles.• Dense older forests are more
susceptible to beetle outbreak.Mountain pine beetles are 1/8” to 1/3” long. Little insect – big impact.
‘‘Impact of climate change on biodiversity
• Species extinction 20-30% of species at risk. • Climate change and forests
Climate change and water
Climate change and polar regions Climate change and wildlife
Temperatures will continue to rise
Frost-free season (and growing season) will lengthen
References • McCarthy, J. J., O. F. Canziani, N. A. Leary, D. J. Dokken and K. S. White.
2001. Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. IPCC, Cambridge University Press, UK.
• UNFCCC. Feeling the Heat, accessed online at• Pounds, J. A., Fogden, M. P. L. and Campbell, J.H. 1999.• Ecology: Clouded futures. Nature 398: 611-615.• McCarthy et al., 2001. WWF. Climate Change. Nature at risk. Threatened
species, accessed online at• Web link • http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/tackling_climate_change/impacts_of_
climate_change/
• http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/problems/impacts/species/index.cfm
• http://unfccc.int/essential_background/feeling_the_heat/items/2918.php
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