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New tool to predict impact of climate change
2014-10-02 08:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Trust of India: Researchers have developed a new tool to overcome a major challenge of predicting how organisms may respond to climate change. "When climate changes, organisms have three choices: migrate, adapt, or go extinct," said lead author Matt Fitzpatrick of the University of Maryland Centre for Environmental Science's Appalachian Laboratory. "We're bringing the ability to quantify that adaptation piece that had largely been missing up to this point," said Fitzpatrick. Organisms are adapted to live...
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