Post-2020 biodiversity targets need to embrace climate change
- aAtmospheric Environmental Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany;
- bGeoecology and Geography, KIT, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany;
- cMarine Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation (MARBEC), Université Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), CNRS, 34000 Montpellier, France;
- dEcologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, 91405 Orsay, France;
- eDepartment of Biology and Biotechnologies, Global Mammal Assessment Program, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy;
- fEcosystem Services Projects Section, Biodiversity Conservation Center, 117312, Moscow, Russia;
- gGeographic Institute, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510 Mexico City, Mexico;
- hGlobal Change Biology Group, Botany and Zoology Department, University of Stellenbosch, 7600 Stellenbosch, South Africa;
- iLaboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD 253), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS 5174), Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, France;
- jLaboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, UMR 5553, CNRS-Université Grenoble Alpes, 38400 Grenoble, France;
- kBasque Centre for Climate Change, Parque Científico de Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 48940 Leioa, Spain;
- lNatural Resources and Ecosystem Services Area, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Kanagawa 240-0115, Japan
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Edited by Robert John Scholes, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, South Africa, and approved October 3, 2020 (received for review July 2, 2020)

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- Almut Arnetha,b,1,
- Yunne-Jai Shinc,
- Paul Leadleyd,
- Carlo Rondininie,
- Elena Bukvarevaf,
- Melanie Kolbg,
- Guy F. Midgleyh,
- Thierry Oberdorffi,
- Ignacio Palomoj,k, and
- Osamu Saitol
- aAtmospheric Environmental Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany;
- bGeoecology and Geography, KIT, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany;
- cMarine Biodiversity, Exploitation and Conservation (MARBEC), Université Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), CNRS, 34000 Montpellier, France;
- dEcologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, 91405 Orsay, France;
- eDepartment of Biology and Biotechnologies, Global Mammal Assessment Program, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy;
- fEcosystem Services Projects Section, Biodiversity Conservation Center, 117312, Moscow, Russia;
- gGeographic Institute, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510 Mexico City, Mexico;
- hGlobal Change Biology Group, Botany and Zoology Department, University of Stellenbosch, 7600 Stellenbosch, South Africa;
- iLaboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD 253), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS 5174), Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, France;
- jLaboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, UMR 5553, CNRS-Université Grenoble Alpes, 38400 Grenoble, France;
- kBasque Centre for Climate Change, Parque Científico de Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 48940 Leioa, Spain;
- lNatural Resources and Ecosystem Services Area, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Kanagawa 240-0115, Japan
Edited by Robert John Scholes, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, South Africa, and approved October 3, 2020 (received for review July 2, 2020)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: almut.arneth{at}kit.edu.
Author contributions: A.A., Y.-J.S., P.L., and C.R. designed research; A.A., Y.-J.S., P.L., C.R., E.B., M.K., T.O., I.P., and O.S. analyzed data; and A.A., Y.-J.S., P.L., C.R., E.B., M.K., G.F.M., T.O., I.P., and O.S. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no competing interest.
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