Monday, August 02, 2004
Duke News & Communications: "Duke Study Disputes Idea that Trees can 'Relocate' Quickly in Response to Climate Change
New evidence from modern distributions suggests ancient trees may have lived near ice sheet
Monday, August 2, 2004 |
DURHAM, NC - In a study with implications for how North American trees might respond to a changing climate, molecular information collected by Duke University researchers refutes a widely accepted theory that many of the continent's tree species migrated rapidly from the deep South as glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age.
'When you put the molecular data together with other lines of evidence, it suggests that maybe they didn't move as fast as we previously thought,' said James Clark, H.L. Blomquist Professor of Biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. "
New evidence from modern distributions suggests ancient trees may have lived near ice sheet
Monday, August 2, 2004 |
DURHAM, NC - In a study with implications for how North American trees might respond to a changing climate, molecular information collected by Duke University researchers refutes a widely accepted theory that many of the continent's tree species migrated rapidly from the deep South as glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age.
'When you put the molecular data together with other lines of evidence, it suggests that maybe they didn't move as fast as we previously thought,' said James Clark, H.L. Blomquist Professor of Biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. "
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