Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering

Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering

Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering, Published online: 23 July 2018; doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0231-9

Topographic variations result in microclimatic heterogeneity that can substantially reduce extinction risk from climate change, according to a study of 430 climate-threatened and range-declining species in England.