Climate warming favors light-colored insects in Europe
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 17:40
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Climate changeButterflies and dragonflies with a lighter shade of colour do better in warmer areas of Europe. This gives them a competitive advantage over the darker insects in the face of climate change. Changes in Europe's insect assemblages due to warming can already be seen for dragonflies, shows a study recently published in Nature Communications.