Climate change may harm predator-prey connection

Castanet featured research by Rebecca Tyson, a professor of mathematics at UBC’s Okanagan campus, about how climate change may lead to the extinction of some species and impact predator-prey relationships.

“At the moment we have stable cyclical relationships between prey and predator,” Tyson said. “But we have found some new behaviour which leads us to ask whether longer summers make existing predator/prey relationships sustainable.”