Climate Change Sends Species on the Move
source: http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100103/climate-change-sends-species-move-giving-invasives-leg
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Warmer temperatures and rising sea levels are already forcing migrations of animals and plants, and invasive species may be some of biggest winners as habitat are disrupted by climatic changes.
Whether species survive new conditions brought by a changing climate will depend on their ability to move with those changes, says a study in the current issue of the journal Nature. Plants and animals, on average, will have to be able to migrate at a rate of about a quarter mile (0.42 km) a year in order to stay within the ecological "envelope" to which they are adapted, it says.
But as some species' envelopes shrink, others' are expanding, particularly those of invasive species and often at significant economic and ecological cost.
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100103/climate-change-sends-species-move-giving-i...
Whether species survive new conditions brought by a changing climate will depend on their ability to move with those changes, says a study in the current issue of the journal Nature. Plants and animals, on average, will have to be able to migrate at a rate of about a quarter mile (0.42 km) a year in order to stay within the ecological "envelope" to which they are adapted, it says.
But as some species' envelopes shrink, others' are expanding, particularly those of invasive species and often at significant economic and ecological cost.
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100103/climate-change-sends-species-move-giving-i...
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