Habitat and Biodiversity Loss Projections by 2050

Submitted by francob12 on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 10:32am

Source:

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)

Submitted by sybil.bory on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 10:31am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity

This picture is a global reprensentation on what is biodiversity.

Submitted by francob12 on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 10:30am

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)

Submitted by francob12 on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 10:27am

US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Survey Division, World Soil Resources

Orange and red show the areas where the risk of human induced desertification is higher. As it can be immediately seen, the most affected areas are along the equator line in Africa. Developing countries such as India and the Middle East and Eastern Europe are also thought to be affected.
This also goes together with natural deforestation and desertification.
Desertification and droughts are major causes of ecosystem losses and species mass migration or extinction.

Submitted by francob12 on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 10:22am

IPCC

Not only does the melting of ice caps lead to a direct ecosystem loss, it also has, together with the melting of glaciers, an effect on the rise of the average sea level.
Sea level rise impacts directly all those costal environments and ecosystems. Many islands would potentially disappear.