1. How might global warming alter the geographic distributions of species? Specifically, how would animals that...

1. How might global warming alter the geographic distributions of species? Specifically, how would animals that live at various latitudes respond to global warming?

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Ans- a niche was considered to represents a set of tolerance limits in a multidimensional space that define where a given species is potentially able to maintain its population levels.

Animals have had specific response to climate change. Species response to climate change by migration, adaptation or if neither of those occur,death (Extinction).

These migration can sometimes follow an animal preferred temp. Elevation,soil etc. as said terran move due to climate change. Adaptaion can be genetical or phenological,and death can occur only in a local population (extirpation) or as entire species called extinction.

The best known example of extinction is carboniferous rainforest collapse which occured 350 million years ago. This event decimated amphibian populations.

Global warming is projected to affect individual organisam,populations, species distribution and ecosystem composition and function both directly and indirectly.

gladiator answered 1 year ago

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