Terrestrial Biodiversity Adaptation Research Network

This study summarizes recent advances in geophysical research which show that despite rapid climate change that occurred in the Late Pleistocene which could have been more dramatic than contemporary changes. Despite this, few species extinctions are recorded for this period and the authors suggest this challenges current views on species extinction under climate change.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02418.x

Hoff et al. (2011). Rethinking species’ ability to cope with rapid climate change. Global Change Biology (online early).