Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services in Europe: the Case of Pest Control by Vertebrates. BioScience.

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serval:BIB_EFABBF112C3E
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
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Title
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services in Europe: the Case of Pest Control by Vertebrates. BioScience.
Journal
BioScience
Author(s)
Civantos E., Thuiller W., Maiorano L., Guisan A., Araujo M.B.
ISSN
0006-3568
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2012
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
62
Number
7
Pages
658-666
Language
english
Abstract
Global environmental changes threaten ecosystems and cause significant alterations to the supply of ecosystem services that are vital for human well-being. We provide an assessment of the potential impacts of climate change on European diversity of vertebrates and their associated pest control services. We modeled the distributions of the species that provide this service using ensembles of forecasts from bioclimatic envelope models and then used their results to generate maps of potential species richness among vertebrate providers of pest control services. We assessed how potential richness of pest control providers would change according to different climate and greenhouse emissions scenarios. We found that potential richness of pest control providers was likely to face substantial reductions, especially in southern European countries that had economies highly dependent on agricultural yields. In much of central and northern Europe, where countries had their economies less dependent on agriculture, climate change was likely to benefit pest control providers
Keywords
Biodiversity, Ensemble forecasting, Service-providing units, Species distribution models
Web of science
Open Access
Yes
Create date
22/02/2012 12:33
Last modification date
20/08/2019 16:17
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