Persistent Quaternary climate refugia are hospices for biodiversity in the Anthropocene

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0682-7

The stability of climatic conditions since the Last Glacial Maximum has contributed to current global patterns of species richness. Changes in patterns of climate stability this century reveal areas where climate change could reduce biodiversity, with largest losses in past climatic safe havens.