Too hot to handle: A deep dive into biodiversity in a warming world

This publication provides a deep dive into ecosystem biodiversity in a world impacted by climate change. Environmental changes are occurring at a global scale. The drivers affecting terrestrial biodiversity are not happening in isolation, and the interactions between them can be multipliers of change. In particular, climate change has the potential to interact with many other drivers of change. What is starting to be grasped, but still requires much attention, is how the drivers of biodiversity change are interacting and where this will have the greatest negative impacts on nature. 

As natural systems begin to shift, getting to the roots of change takes more than just identifying the drivers, like climate change. It is also crucial to assess how these drivers interact and cascade across global, regional and local scales. Understanding how, and where, these are likely to impact global biodiversity will be key to creating a world where both people and nature can thrive.