Arizona Daily Wildcat: A UA researcher has determined that the rate of future climate change will drastically exceed many animal species ability to adapt.
In a study recently published in the scientific journal Ecology Letters, John Wiens, a UA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, along with Ignacio Quintero, an ecologist at Yale University, examined more than 500 extinct species of vertebrates, including mammals, birds and reptiles.
The researchers took into account the rate of climatic niche evolution,...