Tropical trees in the Andes are moving up -- toward extinction
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
In the most comprehensive study of its kind, biologists have found that tropical and subtropical forests across South America's Andes Mountains are responding to warming temperatures by migrating to higher, cooler elevations, but probably not quickly enough to avoid the loss of their biodiversity, functional collapse, or even extinction.