Symposium on the Impact of Global Warming on Biological Diversity; Washington, D.C.; October 4-6, 1988

这次会议是及时的。 一组专家将采取一项 仔细研究预测的气候变化对 生物的多样性。 科学界一致认为， 地球变暖是因为“温室效应”。“虽然 在预测未来气候方面， 变化，相对较少的注意力已经投入到评估 对野生动植物的潜在影响。 然而， 研究得出结论，生物效应可能是深远的， 包括物种范围的大幅度变化， 生物群落和物种灭绝。 养护 解决这个问题需要一个科学的、 了解野生物种将如何应对气候变暖， 这些反应将如何与持续的人类 侵占 世界野生动物基金会将召开第一次大型 评估对生物多样性影响的专题讨论会。 会议 将提供一个科学的概述目前的理解， 促进讨论和研究，并教育科学和技术人员， 和政策社区。 气候学家将提出一系列的气候情景 生命科学家将以此为基础， 生理和生态反应。 短文将 在全体会议上提出，并将由一个学术机构出版。 press.

This conference is timely. A group of experts will take a careful look at the effects of predicted climate change on diversity of organisms. There is scientific concensus that the Earth is warming because of the "greenhouse effect." While considerable effort has gone into projecting future climate change, relatively little attention has been devoted to assessing potential effects on wild plants and animals. Yet, initial studies have concluded that biological effects could be profound, including large shifts in species ranges, disruption of biological communities, and extinction of species. Conservation responses to this problem will need a firm scientific understanding of how wild species will respond to the warming and how these responses will interplay with continuing human encroachment. The World Wildlife Fund will convene the first major symposium to assess affects upon biodiversity. The conference will provide a scientific overview of current understanding, catalyze discussion and research, and educate both the scientific and policy communities. Climatologists will present a range of climatic scenarios upon which life scientists will base papers discussing possible physiological and ecological responses. The papers will be presented in plenary session and will be published by an academic press.