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like the Gondwana Link (www.gondwanalink.org), this analysis highlights specifi c
areas where this strategy could be implemented to improve the extrinsic adaptation
potential of native species in the face of climate change.
Climate observations over the past century indicate the climate in the mediterra-
nean biome is changing [43]. There is also a high level of agreement in the AOGCM
simulations that most of the biome will continue to get hotter and drier. This study
shows where there is agreement that the biome will shift, how the threats to biodi-
versity from these shifts will be exacerbated by current land use and land protection
patterns, and highlights which regions are in need of the most urgent conservation
attention. This conservation attention is required to establish protected areas and con-
nectivity pathways to ensure the current investment in protected areas remains secure
and facilitates and enhances the extrinsic adaptation potential of the species of the
mediterranean biome.

KEYWORDS

• Extrinsic adaptation potential

• Genetic diversity

• Mediterranean biome

• Mediterranean climate

AUTHORS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Conceived and designed the experiments: Kirk R. Klausmeyer and M. Rebecca Shaw.
Performed the experiments: Kirk R. Klausmeyer. Analyzed the data: Kirk R.
Klausmeyer. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Kirk R. Klausmeyer and
M. Rebecca Shaw. Wrote the chapter: Kirk R. Klausmeyer and M. Rebecca Shaw.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank Peter Kareiva, Ken Caldeira, Dominique Bachelet, Jaymee Marty, Edwin
Maurer, Stacey Solie, Emma Underwood, and William Klausmeyer for helpful discus-
sions and reviewing drafts of this manuscript. We acknowledge the climate modeling
groups, the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison and the World
Climate Research Programme's Working Group on Coupled Modeling for their roles
in making available the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 3 multi-model
dataset. Support of this dataset is provided by the Office of Science, US Department
of Energy.