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Helping Insects Adapt to Climate Change
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Climate change adaptation is about helping societies and nature adjust to changing climate. Ecologists need to study example species to reveal key vulnerabilities and design useful strategies for helping biodiversity adjust to climate change. This video describes research in the Hellmann Lab to understand the vulnerabilities of butterflies and their plants to climate change, and a strategy called managed relocation (or assisted migration) that might help species persist through climate change.
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On December 5th, 2011 at 5:59 pm Thalia Assuras Said:
The researchers here admit to the massive challenges of managed relocation and that their efforts are in the embryo stage. Nature, through evolution, may well solve the problem itself.
On December 16th, 2011 at 5:37 pm Christophe Tulou Said:
Still a lot unknown in this realm, e.g., what are the unknown impacts of relocation, what about changes in vegetation in relocation areas due to climate change, for what species would this work and which not, what prevents insect migration and what would be involved to successfully “transplant” these species. So, scalability and impact are tough to gauge at this point, but it seems a very important question to address.
On December 16th, 2011 at 5:45 pm Michael Cowden Said:
Great information explaining the role of insects and their importance. Attention grabbing topic and fascinating approach to the topic.