Executive Overview of World Wildlife's Conference on Consequences of the Greenhouse Effect for Biological Diversity: Final Project Report.

摘要

World Wildlife Fund organized the first Conference on Consequences of the Greenhouse Effect for Biological Diversity, which was held October 4--6, 1988 at the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC. This meeting was the first to focus on how conservation of natural ecosystems would be effected by global warming. Prior to this meeting there existed no aggregated body of information about possible ecological effects, and very few scientists were doing relevant research or interpreting existing data in terms of climate change. Because effects had not been identified, biological diversity was largely overlooked in conferences and reports on global warming. Therefore, this conference had the groundbreaking role of pulling together existing information, stimulating scientists whose work could be relevant into focusing their efforts on global warming, drawing general conclusions about conservation consequences, and communicating these conclusions to the scientific, policy, funding, and management communities. 18 refs.