Biodiversity Measured by the Speed of Climate Change (1 of 11) (IMAGE)

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Biodiversity Measured by the Speed of Climate Change (1 of 11)

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Similar movement rates are needed to stay ahead of climate change on land and in the oceans. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 4, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Michael T. Burrows of Scottish Marine Institute in Argyll, Scotland, UK, and colleagues, was titled, "The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems.”

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