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Effects of Global Warming on animals

RUNNING HEAD : Global Warming : Effect on Animals

Effects of Global Warming on Animals

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Chapter II : Review of Literature

Introduction

Overview : Global Warming

In the United States , the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ) has initiated various environmental campaigns to gradually resolve the increasing impacts of climate change towards the environment (Silverstein et .al , 2003

.5 . The public 's increased attention to such problem is not anymore surprising as it threatens every creature with

br potentially devastating consequences . However , the subjects of animal health have received lesser attention compared to the economic industrial and social impacts of climatic changes brought by global warming (Sherman , 2002

.204 . According to Root , Price and Hall et al (2003 , the primary concern of ecologists is the rapid increase of climatic change consistently altering the natural ecology of wildlife in various ecosystems . Based on the annual measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide (ACO ) concentrations , two major signals depicting dramatic ecological patterns have been observed , namely (1 ) seasonal cycle that reflects the metabolism of terrestrial ecosystems in the northern hemisphere , and (2 ) accelerating increase in tropospheric concentrations of ACO since 1957 (Vitousek , 1994 . As supported by various studies (Root , Price and Hall et al , 2003 Vitousek , 1994 Tylianakis , Didham and Bascompte et al , 2008 , global warming effects namely (1 ) increases in temperature (2 ) alteration of food chains , and (3 ) atmospheric gas imbalances , dramatically affect the conditions of animal kingdom

Literature Review

Global Warming : Ecological...

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