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Will climate change outpace species adaptation?

webfull — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:40:14 +0000

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.

Published: 4 March 2021

Borrowing a leaf from biology to preserve threatened languages

webfull — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 12:12:41 +0000

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, 9I�� scientists are proposing to borrow a leaf from conservation biology.

Published: 13 December 2017

Protecting life’s tangled ecological webs

webfull — Tue, 09 May 2017 15:39:46 +0000

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 9I�� and University of British Columbia have developed a new theory to understand how complex ecological networks will reorganize in the future.

Published: 9 May 2017

9I��������� News - species

Will climate change outpace species adaptation?

Borrowing a leaf from biology to preserve threatened languages

Protecting life’s tangled ecological webs

9I�� News - species