Peter Soroye has always been interested in learning about the birds and the bees.
Peter Soroye has always been interested in learning about the birds and the bees. And no, that’s not a euphemism. His love of science and animals—and his lack of enthusiasm for anatomy—inspired him to alter his course from a pre-med track to a PhD in biology and conservation science at the University of Ottawa.
Now, he’s the lead author of a new research paper published in Science that explains how climate change is driving bumblebees to extinction and outlines the method they used to accurately predict where bees would thrive and where they would struggle to survive.
The best part is, this method can be applied to predict climate change-related extinction in all animal species.
The study, which primarily looks at declining bumblebee populations in North America and Europe, is a collaboration between Soroye, uOttawa Biology Professor Jeremy Kerr and Tim Newbold, a research fellow at University College London.
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