‘Leads to a mismatch:’ Climate change may be putting natural world out of synch
Mother Nature is losing her timing.
A major study has concluded that the delicately choreographed interactions between species that keep food webs functioning are more and more out of synch. And while the paper isn’t conclusive, it casts a suspicious eye on climate change.
“Everything is consistent with the fact it’s getting warmer,” said Heather Kharouba, a University of Ottawa ecologist and lead author of a paper published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Scientists have been finding for years that events in the natural world aren’t quite lining up the way they used to.