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Multiple biomes in Asia have already experienced visible shifts in response to climate change. These include changes in growing season length, habitat losses (particularly of the amphibian species [3]: 1473 ) or greater invasive species frequency. [3]: 1476 Many animal species have been observed to move into warming areas to the north.
Area covered by the Indo-Pacific biogeographic region Indo-Pacific. The green circle covers ASEAN.. The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth.In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the seas connecting the two.
While it covers only 1.6% of the planet's oceanic area, the region has 76% of all known coral species in the world. As a habitat for 52% of Indo-Pacific reef fishes and 37% of the world's reef fishes, it contains the greatest diversity of coral reef fishes in the world [17] More than 3,000 species of bony fish are distributed over more than 90% of the Coral Triangle.
Thailand, Bangkok, 2023/05/08. A man eats as he sits on a bench in Lumpini Park during heat wave conditions. On May 7, 2023, Vietnam and Laos recorded their hottest temperatures ever as a heat ...
The Indonesian archipelago (Indonesian: Kepulauan Indonesia) is a large collection of over 17,000 to 18,000 islands [6] [7] located between the Indian and Pacific Oceans in Southeast Asia and Oceania. [8]
Asia was the world's most disaster-hit region by climate related hazards last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, with floods and storms causing the highest number of casualties.
In tropical Asia, the distribution and character of the rain forest changes with elevation in the mountains. In Thailand, for instance, the area of tropical forests could increase from 45% to 80% of the total forest cover, while in Sri Lanka, a substantial change in dry forest and decrease in wet forest might occur.