Paleoecologists Offer New Insight Into How Climate Change Will Affect Organisms
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 00:14
in Earth & Climate
New research examines some of the potential problems with current prediction methods and calls for the use of a range of approaches when predicting the impact of climate change on organisms. The study uses examples from recent paleoecological studies to highlight how climate variability of the past has affected the distributions of tree species, and even how events that occurred many centuries ago still shape present-day distributions patterns.