Bioenergy cropland expansion may offset positive effects of climate change mitigation for global vertebrate diversity.

ABSTRACT: Climate and land-use change interactively affect biodiversity. Large-scale expansions of bioenergy have been suggested as an important component for climate change mitigation. Here we use harmonized climate and land-use projections to investigate their potential combined impacts on global vertebrate diversity under a low- and a high-level emission scenario. We combine climate-based species distribution models for the world's amphibians, birds, and mammals with land-use change simulations and identify areas threatened by both climate and land-use change in the future. The combined projected effects of climate and land-use change on vertebrate diversity are similar under the two scenarios, with land-use change effects being stronger under the low- and climate change effects under the high-em

SUBMITTER: Hof C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6310845 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature