Two degrees decimated Puerto Rico's insect populations
Monday, October 15, 2018 - 14:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
While temperatures in the tropical forests of northeastern Puerto Rico have climbed two degrees Celsius since the mid-1970s, the biomass of arthropods—invertebrate animals such as insects, millipedes, and sowbugs—has declined by as much as 60-fold, according to new findings published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.