“In the face of rapid climate change, species cannot adapt and become extinct”

INTERVIEW WITH ECOLOGIST CAMILLE PARMESAN

“We have to leave natural corridors so that species can move,” explains the ecologist, who won the BBVA Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category

Studies by ecologist Camille Parmesan showed that a modest lepidoptera, Edith’s maiden butterfly (Euphydryas editha), revealed a lot of information about the impact that climate change is having on wild species. Born in Houston, Parmesan began her studies at the University of Texas and now works at the French National Center for Scientific Research.

“The species that have the most problems adapting to warming are those that cannot move, or those that are already at higher latitudes,” he explains to this newspaper. Her discoveries on the relationship between global warming and the movement of species have earned her the Frontiers of Knowledge award in the category of Climate Change and Environmental Sciences from the BBVA Foundation

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