Balance between climate change mitigation benefits and land use impacts of bioenergy: conservation implications for European birds.

ABSTRACT: Both climate change and habitat modification exert serious pressure on biodiversity. Although climate change mitigation has been identified as an important strategy for biodiversity conservation, bioenergy remains a controversial mitigation action due to its potential negative ecological and socio-economic impacts which arise through habitat modification by land-use change. While the debate continues, the separate or simultaneous impacts of both climate change and bioenergy on biodiversity have not yet been compared. We assess projected range shifts of 156 European bird species by 2050 under two alternative climate change trajectories: a baseline scenario, where the global mean temperature increases by 4°C by the end of the century, and a 2 degrees scenario, where global concerted effort l

SUBMITTER: Meller L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4678595 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature