New Zealand’s fossil record suggests more species lived in warmer waters. But the current rate of warming may break this pattern
- Written by: Tom Womack, PhD Candidate, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Tom Womack, CC BY-NC-SA
Marine organisms found in New Zealand’s past and present coastal waters.Tom Womack, CC BY-NDNew Zealand may be relatively small, but its fossil record reveals a globally important ecological relationship between the number of species, their role in the ecosystem and ocean temperatures.
We used New Zealand’s...