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… climate variability, will also affect biodiversity, and ecosystem composition, function, and vulnerability. Toxicity … over the oceans. Additional warming occurs in cities and urban areas, often referred to as the ‘urban heat island effect’. An increase in temperature of …

… those living in marginalised areas, pastoralists, urban poor people, refugees and displaced people (DFID, … countries the portion of indigenous peoples living in urban areas constitutes up to more than half of their total … change. It leads to alteration of surface properties of an ecosystem (e.g. albedo, roughness length) and changes the …

… nd climate dynamics, as well as the destabilising influence ecosystem degradation has on climate systems  … and  causing  significant  and  irreversible ecosystem change,  it  is  evident  that  emphasis  needs  … nce to decline12. Algae, a vital nutrient within the Arctic ecosystem,  is also predicted to decline as this  …