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What is Potential Risk

Chapter 8
Climate Change and Its Impact on Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones
Potential risk refers to any risk associated with an action that is possible, in certain circumstances. A risk refers to a threat or damage that may occur in operations of any work.
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Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current Trends
Vartika Singh (Amity University Noida, India)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7387-6.ch008
Abstract
The chapter illuminates the effect of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services. It also explains the present scenario of biological resources with biological diversity. The author describes the known biological resources and their uses with the help of flow chart and also shows the linkage among them. The author clearly explicates the inter-relationship between human activity, climate change, and biological diversity with charts. In the last section, the author talk about the effect on the paleo climate and impact of climate change on different parts of ecosystem services.
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