Can Mammals Keep Up When Climate Warms? Insights from the Fossil Record




NHMLA Talks | Natural History Museum of Los Angeles show

Summary: Environmental change impacts the Earth's biota. Extracting the responses of populations, species and communities to perturbations of the past is one of the best ways of unraveling how they will respond to perturbations of the future. I excavate caves and use the fossils to reveal how animals have handled prehistoric warming and cooling events using isotopes, morphometrics and ancient DNA.