Mammal Biology: As Temps Rise, Species Shrink and Diversity Wanes

[bananian]

sweet, I'm small. That means I'll survive better than everyone else, haha.

[ultramerton]

I'm a little confused. Does anyone else think that the first graph could be the same if she was discussing a cooling trend? A species is adapted to a certain environment via natural selection, so if the climate changes in any direction, the population must either adapt or die. Wouldn't this too result in a decrease in genetic diversity? I'm not sure linking this to a warming trend is useful.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

sounds like bullshit to me

[pye333]

@LeGioNoFZioN Christian? lolol

[LeGioNoFZioN]

@pye333 yes

[pye333]

@LeGioNoFZioN Makes sense why you would deny it.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

@pye333 you would be surprised

[Brothergeorge]

Groovy

[eyallev]

so basiclly, what she's saying is, "temp rise = good"

higher temps' lead to more food, more food leads to faster birth, faster birth leads to more births, more births leads to more pop', more pop' leads to genetic diversity, which means the spices are better equipped to face the future.

[BroBroDude]

diversity is for fags anyways

[TsarSamuil]

Because of such an unpredictable and massively dominating species as humans, there is no way u can predict future based on past patterns because the past has never had a species with such a stranglehold of the earth.

Scientists are best at talking about their work, but when they try to sell it then many of them sound very silly.

Unfortunately the world will be too organized for wildlife to evolve without interference from humans, we control their numbers n shoot off many.

[merdufer]

@TsarSamuil You really think human beings are that unpredictable?

[1RadicalOne]

Did we not know this already...?

[Truthiness231]

Quite interesting; the more data we have on how climate changes affect diversity of a species, the better (though I guess the doubters of both evolution and climate change (which often go hand-in-hand) are probably doubly upset from this data =P).