Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:34 pm
Whatever. We do know that this is all not a good thing. Plants can move in to new habitats, but many things are going to die off because they either can't move quickly enough or there won't be any suitable habitat for them at all. As Richard Leakey has argued, we are definitely neck-deep in a Sixth Extinction.
I read an interview a couple of years ago with a park naturalist in Denali NP where he spoke about having been able to watch the changes taking place there. Shrubs growing where there was only tundra, and trees where there had never been trees.
Haven't naturalists forecast the extinction of the North American pika? Its habitat will disappear faster than either the habitat or the animal will be able to migrate.
I read an interview a couple of years ago with a park naturalist in Denali NP where he spoke about having been able to watch the changes taking place there. Shrubs growing where there was only tundra, and trees where there had never been trees.
Haven't naturalists forecast the extinction of the North American pika? Its habitat will disappear faster than either the habitat or the animal will be able to migrate.