Report on the observed climate, projected climate, and projected biodiversity changes for Gros Morne National Park of Canada under differing levels of warming ...
Gros Morne National Park is among the top 13% of all non-marine protected areas, globally. Most of the park is projected to be relatively resilient to climate change, even at 4°C. However, lower, coastal portions of the park are projected to require increasing levels of adaptation effort as warming...
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Zenodo
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12745403 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12745403 |
| Summary: | Gros Morne National Park is among the top 13% of all non-marine protected areas, globally. Most of the park is projected to be relatively resilient to climate change, even at 4°C. However, lower, coastal portions of the park are projected to require increasing levels of adaptation effort as warming levels exceed 2°C. Averaged over the entire area of this large park, with 4°C warming (global, above pre-industrial), the area is projected to remain climatically suitable for 73.1% of its terrestrial biodiversity (fungi, plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates), with 10.8% of its area remaining an overall refugia (remaining climatically suitable for >75% of the species) for biodiversity. If warming levels were held to 2°C, 84.1% of the area would remain a climatic refugia and the area would remain climatically suitable for 91.3% of its terrestrial biodiversity. Between 1961-1990 and 1991-2020 the average monthly temperature has increased by 0.1° - 1.1°C. With warming levels of 2.0°C the new average monthly ... |
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