生物多样性和全球气候变化+林大..ppt

* * * * Adapted from MA Synthesis Figure 3. Conversion of Terrestrial Biomes (Adapted from C4, S10) It is not possible to estimate accurately the extent of different biomes prior to significant human impact, but it is possible to determine the “potential” area of biomes based on soil and climatic conditions. This Figure shows how much of that potential area is estimated to have been converted by 1950 (medium certainty), how much was converted between 1950 and 1990 (medium certainty). MA SDM: “Humans are fundamentally, and to a significant extent irreversibly, changing the diversity of life o