most recent 30 from http://community.ecoanswers.com 2010-07-31T06:13:07Z http://community.ecoanswers.com/feeds/question/397 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://community.ecoanswers.com/questions/397/responses-to-climate-change LueNe 2009-12-30T13:26:51Z 2010-01-17T11:25:34Z

<p>How Can Evolutionary Responses to Climate Change Be Measured?</p>

http://community.ecoanswers.com/questions/397/responses-to-climate-change/398#398 rachel mojave 2009-12-30T13:29:19Z 2009-12-30T13:29:19Z

<p>If the climate were to go through a cooling cycle there would be a fossil record in the layers of sediments globally that would suggest a shrinking of the green bands around the earth. That is to say that latitudes that could support plant growth would become more limited and closer to the equator. As the planet goes through a warming cycle that fossil record (if one was able to find and identify it) would show plant species growth shift and change and expand towards the polar regions to areas that were once unable to support life due to previous frozen periods. With that plant matter would be the following animal life as migration patterns change and expand as abundance shifted.</p>

http://community.ecoanswers.com/questions/397/responses-to-climate-change/641#641 dennisvolker 2010-01-03T11:12:41Z 2010-01-03T11:12:41Z

<p>By obtaining estimates of evolutionary processes and linking them to historical records, evolutionary response to climate change can be measured. This indicates long term evolutionary responses of changes rather than short term behaviour changes, which are usually at play (habits, not significant changes in lifestyle).</p>