Tropical Lizards Can't Take the Heat of Climate Warming
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 19:42
in Earth & Climate
Lizards living in tropical forests could be in serious peril from rising temperatures associated with climate change. In fact, those forest lizards appear to tolerate a much narrower range of survivable temperatures than do their relatives at higher latitudes and are actually less tolerant of high temperatures.
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