Climate Change Adaptation

1 · Shawn T O'Neil · April 27, 2014, midnight
Climate change is likely to have profound impacts on ecological systems, but in some important cases we’re still a long way from understanding exactly what those impacts might be. For instance, it has been posited that under warming, species in the northern hemisphere will be enhanced at their northern range edge (where presumably species are fitness-limited, and hence range-limited, by the cooler temperatures). Rather, recent research indicates that individual populations of some species may be...