Community-level effects of climate change on Ontario's terrestrial biodiversity /

The single species effects of climate change were recently documented in the climate change research report entitled The Known and Potential Effects of Climate Change on Biodiversity in Ontario’s Terrestrial Ecosystems (Varrin et al. [...] Lack of connectivity, in turn, leads to reduced recolonization of locally extinct habitat The synergistic effects of patches, further increasing the probability of extinction over time across the habitat fragmentation, habitat whole landscape or metapopulation (Brown and Kodric-Brown 1977, Hanski and loss, and climate change Gilpin 1991). [...] As well, it is predicted that by the year 2100 may occur between climate as many as 1800 of the world’s land bird species could be threatened by the change and pathogens, synergistic effects of climate change and land conversion (Jetz et al. [...] As such, forests, grasslands, and wetlands, and the species that occur within them, are likely to be vulnerable to the synergistic effects of habitat conversion and climate change. [...] In landscapes most vulnerable to the synergistic effects of climate change and fragmentation, the development of ecological connectivity zones, networks of narrow corridors, and wildlife passages may help to lessen the negative effects on some species (Wasserman et al.