Authored by: 

• Camille Parmesan

Climate change is only one of the forces that fall under the umbrella of "global change." Disruptions to ecosystems brought about by warming and other variables affect biodiversity and bring about significant change to the global environment. In this public talk, Dr. Camille Parmesan, research fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara, reveals the correlation between climate change and shrinking biodiversity and highlights examples of how specific species are impacted by a changing climate. In her conclusion, Parmesan stresses the fact that species will be unable to adapt to climate change in the short-term, and she suggests that only by curtailing the long-term warming trend of the planet will we be able to preserve current species and ecosystems.

Tags: 

• biological
• change
• climate
• biodiversity
• butterflies
• ecosystem
• collapse
• false spring
• species
• migration
• coral
• reefs
• public lecture
• biodiversity loss
• climate change
• global warming