Discussion Questions
Questions for Introduction of Ecological Change, Range Fluctuations, and Population Dynamics
- What is the Pleistocene?
- How is the Pleistocene similar but different to today?
Questions for Novel Climate paper
- What are no-analog communities and why did they show up in the Pleistocene?
- Are the issues that created non-analog communities in the past likely to be issues in the future? Why?
- Are there different challenges for species with global vs. regionally novel climates?
- What are the challenges for predicting species responses to regionally or globally novel climates?
- What do changes in the past tell us about what to expect in the future?
- What does the past tell us about the challenges we may face with forecasting?