For Researchers, IPCC Leaves a Deep Impression

摘要

Conservation biologist Terry Root was one of hundreds of volunteer authors on the 2001 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Root, of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, came away with a sense of satisfaction, and something else: an idea for a major study to fill a gap she had noticed. Two years later, Root published a much-cited paper comparing 143 previous studies of how climate change can alter the life cycles and ranges of plants and animals.