Studying changes in marine biogeographic patterns and the factors impacting these patterns over geological time can help scientists understand current responses in organisms due to human-driven climate change. For instance, researchers know that marine organisms are shifting geographically toward the Earth’s poles in response to human-driven climate change. However, predicting the extent to which the species will shift and how such shifts are intertwined with extinction events has not been easy to discern.
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Source: Phys.org