RELATING BIODIVERSITY PUMPS WITH ECO-CLIMATIC VARIATION
For
revealing
the connection
between biodiversity
and eco-climatic
stability
a ground-breaking study was
carried out
by correlating age
grouping of bird DNA
with
10 years of daily NOAA AVHRR data covering Africa. The preliminary result
showed a clear relation between evolution of young species
and recent eco-climatic
variability, the result is used for
identifying new sites for biodiversity research.The study was made in co-operation with Danish Centre of Biodiversity and
EU - JRC, Ispra.
FJELDSÅ,
J., EHRLICH, D., LAMBIN, E. and PRINS, E. (1997) Are speciation
“hotspot”
correlated with current ecoclimate stability ? A
Pilot study using the NOAA-AVHRR remote sensing data.
Biodiversity and Conservation.
6, 401-422.
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