US EditionWater vanished in California. Here’s how one species saved itself.
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Water vanished in California. Here’s how one species saved itself.
SF Gate reported As the most extreme drought period in more than 10,000 years ravaged California from 2012 to 2015, many wildflowers died. But in a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers documented how one flower survived the hard times without rain. Their findings show rare evidence of “evolutionary rescue” — a phenomenon whereby a species rapidly evolves to survive — outside the lab and amid climate change. Read m…
Over the course of eight years of tracking 19 populations of the plant, spanning from the Oregon Highlands to northern Mexico, researchers have observed a dramatic shift: Only those that were able to quickly evolve genetic traits adapted to heat and drought survived and thrived. Others collapsed and became extinct. The study, published in the journal Science, is the first record of a natural species surviving climate change through accelerated e…
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