Australia; International; VIC
We may be underestimating the impacts of climate change on animals say Australian researchers, who found that the distribution of species may be limited by the temperatures at which they can reproduce, rather than the temperatures at which they can survive. The study of fly species found that 44 per cent of the fly species they looked at showed a loss of fertility at temperatures below those that are lethal, and this also matched up with real-world data on the flies distribution. The authors say this suggests that looking at lethal limits alone may overestimate the thermal tolerance of many species.
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