Impact of climate change on biodiversity

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

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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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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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