RESEARCH IDENTIFIES AREAS WHERE EVOLUTION COULD RESCUE THREATENED ANIMALS

In a paper recently published by the scientific journal Science, an international team which included CIBIO-InBIO researchers Paulo Célio Alves and José Melo-Ferreira identified areas where different species, which change color during the winter, have a greater potential to adapt under climate change conditions.

The research concluded that in the so-called "polymorphic zones", where some individuals maintain their brown color in winter and coexist with those that change to white, there is greater probability of evolution save species, through a process called evolutionary rescue.

To know more about this topic, please follow the links below:

Para sobreviverem, há animais que terão de mudar a cor do casaco de peles | Público | March 3, 2018 (Information available in Portuguese)

Identificadas áreas chave para salvar animais das alterações climáticas | Wilder | February 16, 2018 (Information available in Portuguese)

Identificadas zonas de preservação "essencial" para espécies que mudam de cor | TSF | February 16, 2018 (Information available in Portuguese)
Identificadas zonas de preservação "essencial" para espécies que mudam de cor | Diário de Notícias | February 16, 2018 (Information available in Portuguese)
Identificadas zonas de preservação "essencial" para espécies que mudam de cor | O Jogo | February 16, 2018 (Information available in Portuguese)

To read the national press release for this study, please click here.

To access the original article, please click here.