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Risky High Life: Mountain creatures prove extra-vulnerable

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Climate change may literally knock the top off the world’s terrestrial-animal populations, according to an Australian analysis.

HIGH RISKS. A tangerine nursery frog, which lives only in the mountainous rain forests of Queensland, Australia, faces grave perils from climate change. Williams

The species that have specialized in living at the heights of a particular mountain and occur nowhere else face unusually dire risks from climate change, says Stephen E.