Climate change is making Canada’s seasons more erratic, its weather more extreme and its ecosystems less predictable—and UBC Okanagan scientists have now produced the first national map of exactly where that unpredictability is hitting hardest.
Climate change is making Canada’s seasons more erratic, its weather more extreme and its ecosystems less predictable—and UBC Okanagan scientists have now produced the first national map of exactly where that unpredictability is hitting hardest.
Their findings, published in the Nature Portfolio journal Communications Earth & Environment, reveal a troubling mismatch: the regions best shielded from climate chaos are among the least protected by Canada’s national network of parks and conservation areas.
“We’ve been calling this ‘predicting the unpredictable,’” says Dr. Michael J. Noonan, assistant professor of biology and head of UBCO’s Quantitative Ecology Lab.
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