LIVERPOOL, England - A new study by ecologists at the University of Liverpool warns that warmer temperatures causing male infertility could pose a "major threat" to many species amid the climate change crisis.Scientists have been trying to better understand which species will be the most impacted by climate change so that they can plan effective conservation strategies.
But to date, research on temperature tolerance has only focused on the temperatures that will kill organisms, rather than the temperatures at which living things can no longer breed, according to the study authors.The study, published Tuesday in Nature Climate Change, analyzed the effects on 43 different Drosophila species, often referred to as the fruit fly.