Learning from the past could save biodiversity

Learning from the past could save biodiversity

Credit: Juan Carlos Munoz, Adobe Photo Stock

Palaeo-archives are giving scientists new insights into how warming climates affected different species and biodiversity in the past, which they hope will inform future conservation strategies.

They have found that during ancient warming events species and biomes shifted their ranges hundreds to thousands of kilometres, altering the composition of communities and impacting critical ecosystem functions that humans rely on.

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Published by Cosmos.

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