Looking at the past is key to how species may respond to climate change in the future
Looking at the past is key to how species may respond to climate change in the future
11 May 2022
University of Otago researchers analysed ancient DNA of the eastern moa -- and found during the last Ice Age, they retreated to Southern New Zealand.
Co-author Nic Rawlence says in the future we're going to see species moving and responding in individual ways, and we need to have the habitats they like available, so they can move.
He says what we don't what happening is a species only being able to move so far up a mountain range or an island.
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