Communications Biology (Sep 2022)

Evaluation of animal and plant diversity suggests Greenland’s thaw hastens the biodiversity crisis

  • Carolina Ureta,
  • Santiago Ramírez-Barahona,
  • Óscar Calderón-Bustamante,
  • Pedro Cruz-Santiago,
  • Carlos Gay-García,
  • Didier Swingedouw,
  • Dimitri Defrance,
  • Angela P. Cuervo-Robayo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03943-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The analysis of over 20,000 species of tetrapods and vascular plants in different countries, suggests that melting of Greenland’s ice sheets would lead to a faster collapse of global biodiversity.