Report on the observed climate, projected climate, and projected biodiversity changes for Gros Morne National Park of Canada under differing levels of warming ...

• Main Authors: Price, Jeff, Forstenhäusler, Nicole, Graham, Erin, Osborn, Timothy J., Warren, Rachel
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Gros Morne National Park
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12745403; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12745403

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 ...