Saturday, October 27, 2018

             A  RISING THERMOMETER LIFTS ALL PORCUPINES

Climatic Change      , Volume 150          , Issue 3–4, pp 319–331
Range expansion and redefinition of a crop-raiding rodent associated with global warming and temperature increase
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

  • Emiliano Mori Andrea Sforzi Giuseppe Bogliani & Pietro Milanesi 
    Since the 1970s, the crested porcupine Hystrix cristata has shown a marked range expansion... Future climate change scenarios for 2050 and 2070 show that a further range expansion by this species would occur up to 225,576 km2, mainly towards areas where the species was historically absent.
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The increase of isothermality...  would remove an important barrier to the range expansion of the crested porcupine... Despite being protected at national and international levels...  there are complaints about crop damage in agriculture ecosystems, and the species is still widely poached,
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