As global temperatures rise, Amazonian species face a critical survival challenge: the need to migrate to cooler environments to remain resilient. While vast lowlands often require species to travel immense distances to escape warming, upslope migration offers a much quicker path, allowing plants and animals to reach cooler climates by traveling shorter distances uphill.
These routes are labelled as climate-resilient corridors. However, this natural survival mechanism is increasingly hampered by human interference, such as deforestation and the construction of infrastructure. These activities fragment the landscape and block essential uphill corridors…
Source: UBIQUE by American Geographical Society / Lynn Cai
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