<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1117878" class="has-thumb" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 136, 204); transition: 0.1s linear; text-decoration: none; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; min-height: 125px; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><header style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-right: 110px;"><div class="press-release-card__meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; align-items: center;"><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 2px;">26-Feb-2026</div><div class="press-release__multimedia-icons" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 10px;"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-picture" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; top: 1px; display: inline-block; font-family: "Glyphicons Halflings"; line-height: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"></span></div></div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px;">Climate change in the past: First indicators of resilience in tropical life, provided that global warming did not exceed 1.5 degrees</h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 10px; margin: 2px 0px 0px; color: rgb(144, 144, 144); transition: 0.2s ease-in-out;">UTRECHT UNIVERSITY</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="category" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(144, 144, 144); text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 10px; margin: 2px 0px 0px; transition: 0.2s ease-in-out;">PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATION</span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 110px;"><div class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 19px;">New geological data indicate that marine life is somewhat resilient to warming in the tropics. Chris Fokkema, earth scientist at Utrecht University, discovered that tropical algae were largely unaffected by a number of periods of global warming of up to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the distant past. These unicellar organisms form the basis of food webs and are generally very sensitive to rising temperatures. Previous studies of periods of even greater warming showed a dramatic decline in these organisms. \u201cSomewhere beyond those 1.5 degrees, a tipping point occurs.\u201d</p></div></div><dl class="dl-horizontal meta hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); margin-right: 110px;"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;">JOURNAL</dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Geology</em></dd></dl></a><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">\u2014\u2014\u2014</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">2002 - \u201cAlthough we are only at an early stage in the projected trends of global warming, ecological responses to recent climate change are already clearly visible.\u201d<br><br>Walther et al, \u201cEcological responses to recent climate change.\u201d Nature, March 28, 2002<br></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/416389a">https://www.nature.com/articles/416389a</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br>2006 - \u201cClimate change is not a new topic in biology...... Observations of range shifts in parallel with climate change ... date back to the mid-1700s.\u201d<br><br>\u201cThis review \u2026 deals exclusively with observed responses of wild biological species and systems \u2026. \u201c<br><br>"A surprising result is the high proportion of species responding to recent, relatively mild climate change (global average warming of 0.6 C)." <br><br>Parmesan, Camille. Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change. The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 37: pp. 637-69. 2006.<br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110100</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div>
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