Global Experts Meet to Assess Species' Vulnerability to Climate
Change 05 December 2007 | News story A four-day Species
Vulnerability Traits workshop was hosted jointly by Imperial
College London, IUCN Species Programme and IUCN Species Survival
Commission (hereafter referred to jointly as IUCN) and the
Zoological Society of London. It formed an important early step
in two new projects that aim to identify the traits that
predispose species to elevated vulnerability to extinction,
particularly due to the impacts of climate change. The workshop
was attended by 31 biologists whose expertise spanned a broad
range of taxonomic groups and biodiversity-threatening
processes...