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Article: Disruption of Wildlife Populations Forecast in Wildlife Society Report on Global Warming; Profound Threat to Wildlife as We Know It
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- December 15, 2004
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In the first comprehensive
assessment of global warming's likely consequences for North American
wildlife from the nation's leading group of wildlife professionals,
comes a warning of possible major shifts in the ranges and the
restructuring of entire plant and animal communities, and the
disappearance of some forest types in the United States.
The Wildlife Society report, Global Climate Change and Wildlife in
North America, finds that "there is sufficient evidence to indicate
that many species are already responding to warming, and that animals
and plants are already exhibiting discernible range changes
consistent with changing temperatures."
The ...