[MCN] Species will have to adapt their ability to “get busy,” or reproduce

[Lance Olsen]

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Species that survive climate change impacts will not only have to adapt to weather they aren’t used to, but their ability to properly “get busy,” or reproduce, in that environment will be critical to their continued survival. 

CU Denver Integrative Biology Assistant Professor Michael Moore details his research and its findings in the “An evolutionary innovation for mating facilitates ecological niche expansion and buffers species against climate change,” which was recently published in PNAS.

“Species require special traits to mate in hot and stressful environments, and species without these mating traits are especially vulnerable to climate change,” Moore said. “Biologists have long understood that species can only start using new habitats after they evolve novel traits that help them grow and survive there. What our study shows is that where species exist now, and where they might be able to persist in the future, is also determined by whether or not they have traits that help them mate in those new climates.”


https://news.ucdenver.edu/new-cu-denver-study-shows-that-a-key-factor-in-species-survival-will-be-mating-in-extreme-weather/ <https://news.ucdenver.edu/new-cu-denver-study-shows-that-a-key-factor-in-species-survival-will-be-mating-in-extreme-weather/>

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313371121 <https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2313371121>


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