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Science 8 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5792, pp. 1396 - 1397
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131758
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
How Does Climate Change Affect Biodiversity?

Miguel B. Araújo1 and Carsten Rahbek2

The most recent and complex bioclimate models excel at describing species' current distributions. Yet, it is unclear which models will best predict how climate change will affect their future distributions.

1M. B. Araújo is in the Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 28006 Madrid, Spain, and the Centre for Macroecology, Institute of Biology, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: maraujo{at}mncn.csic.es

2C. Rahbek is at the Centre for Macroecology, Institute of Biology, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: crahbek{at}bi.ku.dk

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