Many species might be left vulnerable in the face of climate change, unable to adapt their physiologies to respond to rapid global warming. According to a team of international researchers, species evolve heat tolerance more slowly than cold tolerance, and the level of heat they can adapt to has limits.
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Published on: 4 Mar 2021
One of the world’s 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half – including scores of indigenous North American languages -- might not survive the 21st century, experts say. To preserve as much linguistic diversity as possible in the face of this threat, º«¹úÂãÎè scientists are proposing to borrow a leaf from conservation biology.
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Published on: 13 Dec 2017
Ecosystems are a complex web of interactions. These ecological networks are being reorganized by extinctions and colonization events caused by human impacts, such as climate change and habitat destruction. In a paper published this week in Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers from º«¹úÂãÎè and University of British Columbia have developed a new theory to understand how complex ecological networks will reorganize in the future.
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Published on: 9 May 2017
