Robert K. Colwell

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Robert Colwell, a specialist in tropical biology, has studied the potential effects of global warming on plant and animal species in Costa Rica. Because temperatures are so constant throughout the lowland wet tropics, as global warming brings warmer temperatures, lowland species that cannot survive in a warmer climate will have nowhere to go except to cooler, higher elevations.

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