The , the ,听, and 听reported on a study led by Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology & plant ecology with the University of 海角社区 School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, that will examine 13,000 years鈥 worth of lake sediment containing ancient plant DNA found at four Northeast mountain ranges to determine how alpine plants carried here by glaciers in the last ice age have persisted through extensive climate change, and whether they will survive the unprecedented global warming occurring today. 鈥淭he challenge of having to save a million species from climate change can make you feel like we鈥檙e in uncharted territory, that we don鈥檛 know how to do this, but the planet has gone through climate change before. The fossil record is our blueprint,鈥 Gill said.
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