Climate change and desertification lead to loss of biodiversity through reduced carbon sequestration and soil productivity as well as vegetation losses. Loss of biodiversity negatively impacts human health and ecosystems as different plant species support nutrient cycling, livestock, wildlife, and climate regulation. Terrestrial animals also struggle to adapt to habitat destruction and find new homes, putting species at higher risk of extinction, as seen by the mass deaths of flying foxes in Australia due to extreme heat.
Climate change and desertification lead to loss of biodiversity through reduced carbon sequestration and soil productivity as well as vegetation losses. Loss of biodiversity negatively impacts human health and ecosystems as different plant species support nutrient cycling, livestock, wildlife, and climate regulation. Terrestrial animals also struggle to adapt to habitat destruction and find new homes, putting species at higher risk of extinction, as seen by the mass deaths of flying foxes in Australia due to extreme heat.
Climate change and desertification lead to loss of biodiversity through reduced carbon sequestration and soil productivity as well as vegetation losses. Loss of biodiversity negatively impacts human health and ecosystems as different plant species support nutrient cycling, livestock, wildlife, and climate regulation. Terrestrial animals also struggle to adapt to habitat destruction and find new homes, putting species at higher risk of extinction, as seen by the mass deaths of flying foxes in Australia due to extreme heat.
Climate change => Desertification => loss of biodiversity
Loss of Biodiversity: The biodiversity loss can have significant direct human health impacts with an inadequate ecosystem
Desertification is associated with biodiversity loss and contributes to global climate
change through loss of carbon sequestration capacity. ( -Desertification destroys the biodiversity necessary: Different plant species produce different litter components and, contribute to soil formation and nutrient cycling. The species diversity of vegetation supports both livestock and wildlife. All plants support production that regulates global climate Which leads to reducing soil productivity and vegetation losses. Sum up: desertification => reducing soil productivity + vegetation losses -Loss of vegetation: + Dryland soils contain over ¼ of all of the organic carbon stores in the world. (Asian is the largest continent with 17mill km2, 2nd is Africa with 11mill, though Africa’s land is only 64,7% as large as Asia, the temperature of their desertified lands are up to 84,6% that of Asia) +A lack of water, and soil salinisation in irrigated areas. Irrigated crops need 80 cm (about 30 inches) of water annually, hence them not being provided enough water because of desertization.
Negative effects on animals:
Many terrestrial animals find it difficult to find a new home due to illegal logging. habitat destruction is the primary driver of global biodiversity loss, some terrestrial animals cannot find it difficult to adapt to a new enviroment. This would put these species at a higher risk of extinction. A similar catastrophic extreme heat event took place in Australia, where thousands of flying foxes were killed due to heat stress. These foxes live comfortably below forty-two degrees Celsius, but recent climate change has led to higher temperatures and led to thousands of flying fox deaths