Which Areas are Most Vulnerable to Climate change?

Spring come sooner than usual. Unusually heavy rain fell, but in some places, even drought. Such a shift is only a small part of the many changes that occur due to increasing greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, or more commonly known as climate change.

What is climate change? (Picture from:  
http://www.climatechange.govt.nz/)

From the many places on Earth, where the most vulnerable regions to climate change? Tundra region in the Antarctic or tropical rain forests in the Amazon? A group of researchers led by James Watson of the University of Queensland, Australia, trying to do the new estimate, that published in the Nature Climate Change journal, on September 15, 2013.

Based on the ecosystems integrity and how long is the climate change expected to last, Watson predicted the area which located at high latitude and high altitude are the most vulnerable regions affected by the climate change.

But there are other areas outside that category are also at risk of climate change, such as southern Asia, western and southern Europe, South America and parts of eastern and southern Australia. The region faces the biggest impacts of climate change due to a combination of degraded landscapes and climate shifts.

Concentrations of greenhouse gases from 0 to 2005. (Picture from: http://www.climatechange.govt.nz/)

"The relationship between adaptive capacity and stability of the region vary greatly among ecosystems, and the most vulnerable regions to this calculation is the area which is damaged at the landscape and same time at the climate shifting," said Watson.

Climate change is affecting our planet. Now, though, scientists have found a way to help predict how it will affect the world's ecosystems. They've created a map that identifies Earths' most vulnerable and least vulnerable areas when it comes to climate change. The map illustrates the global distribution of the climate stability/ecoregional intactness relationship. Ecoregions with both high climate stability and vegetation intactness are dark grey. Ecoregions with high climate stability but low levels of vegetation intactness are dark orange. Ecoregions with low climate stability but high vegetation intactness are dark green. Ecoregions that have both low climate stability and low levels of vegetation intactness are pale cream. (Picture from: http://www.scienceworldreport.com/)

This analysis can be used as a reference for the conservation of nature, which in the intact region with a stable condition only requires regular monitoring. However, for areas that have already damaged, it takes greater conservation efforts ranging from habitat restoration to migration of species.

"Whatever the case, the human impact on the Earth has been greatly exaggerated, and it's time we humans act to be responsible for the continuity of nature," said Watson. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | SATWIKA MOVEMENTI | KORAN TEMPO 4347]
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