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University of Montana Research: Mountain Environments More Vulnerable to Climate Change than Previously Reported

New research http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160801/ncomms12349/full/ncomms12349.html by University of Montana forest landscape ecology Professor Solomon Dobrowski shows that organisms will face more hardships as they relocate when climate change makes their current homes uninhabitable.

Dobrowski and co-author Sean Parks – a scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Aldo Leopold Research Institute and a UM alumnus – propose a new method to model how fast and where organisms will need to move to keep pace with climate change.

Mountains support roughly a quarter of the globe’s terrestrial biodiversity, contain about a third of its protected areas and house nearly half of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. One reason for this biodiversity is that complex topography within mountains creates diverse climates within close proximity to one another.

Full Story: http://news.umt.edu/2016/08/072916clim.php

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