Relating biodiversity pumps with eco-climatic variation

For revealing the connection between biodiversity and eco-climatic stability

a ground-breaking study was carried out by correlating age grouping of bird DNA

with 10 years of daily NOAA AVHRR data covering Africa.  The preliminary result

showed a clear relation between evolution of young species and recent eco-climatic

variability, the result is used for identifying new sites for biodiversity research.

The study was made in co-operation with Danish Centre of Biodiversity and

EU - JRC, Ispra.

FJELDSÅ, J., EHRLICH, D., LAMBIN, E. and PRINS, E. (1997) Are speciation

 “hotspot” correlated with current ecoclimate stability ? A Pilot study using the

NOAA-AVHRR remote sensing data. Biodiversity and Conservation. 6, 401-422.

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