How does climate change affect biodiversity?
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Rising temperatures are likely to result in widespread ecological change. Many animal and plant species are likely to become extinct as ecosystems adjust to climate change. While adaptable species will survive, and other migrate, the end result will be lost biodiversity.
Climate change alters temperature and weather pattern. Thus climate change affect biodiversity by :
Affecting the world's polar regions, melting ice packs reduce the habitats of polar bears and other arctic creatures.
As the ice melts, it increases the sea level which will affect ecosystems on coastlines.
Climate changes can be due to effect of Greenhouse gases like carbondioxide,methane, nitrous oxide etc. It increases the atmospheric temperature. Warmer temperatures increases insects that spread diseases like dengue fever and Zika. Also greenhouse effect causes heat waves, hurricanes, droughts and floods.