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How Global Warming Affects the Wildlife

Most researchers agree that even small changes in temperature is sufficient for hundreds if not thousands of types already fighting for extinction, unless we, the flood of global warming. And time may be the essence: A 2003 study published in the journal Nature that 80% of the sample of about 1,500 animal species are already signs of stress from climate change.

As climate change affects Wildlife
The main effects of global warming on wildlife is habitat displacement, ecosystems, animals that have millions of years to adapt to the rapid transition. Ice, to bear in the water of life is just one example.

Another, after the Washington Post, is the possibility that warmer spring temperatures could dry up critical breeding habitat for waterfowl in the prairie pothole, a piece of land between the North and Central America , Iowa Alberta.

The animals concerned people may move to new premises and its expansion. But at the same time the growth of human population means that a lot of land, the nature of such “refugee Wild Life” are already taken, and housing and industrial development. A recent report by the Pew Center for Global Climate Change, the establishment of “transitional period of life” or “corridors” to help the migration through the links of natural species that otherwise separated by human settlement.

Shifting Life Cycles and Climate Change
In addition, the expulsion of life, many scientists agree that global warming leads to a postponement of the date of the various natural cyclical events in the lives of animals. Many birds have a long time to migratory and reproductive routines to better sync with global warming. And some animals ensures the termination of their slumbers earlier each year, perhaps due to warmer temperatures of spring.

The worst of all, current research contradicts the long held by the hypothesis that different types of side by side in an ecosystem respond to global warming as an entity. Instead, as the exchange of different types of habitat meet fashion Tearing Apart from ecological communities in the manufacture of thousands of years.

Effects of climate change on animals, humans
And, like animals separate paths, men may also impact. A World Wildlife Fund study found that a flight from northern United States into Canada of certain types of Warbler led to a spread of beetle Latschenkiefer, destroy economically productive balsam fir trees. Similarly, a northward migration of caterpillars in the Netherlands, the opportunities are few forests.

Which animals are most affected by the consequences of global warming?
According to the defenders of the Wild Life, some of the species most affected by the warming of the planet are caribou (reindeer), arctic foxes, toads, polar bears, penguins, gray wolves, tree swallows, painted turtles and salmon. The group fears that unless we took decisive steps to global warming more and more species of wildlife populations pushed to the brink of extinction in a changing environment.