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Britain has a new snake species – should climate change mean it is allowed to stay?

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par Tom Major, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Herpetology, Bournemouth University
Wolfgang Wüster, Professor of Zoology, Bangor University

All animals live in or seek a set of climate conditions they find tolerable. This “climate envelope” partially determines where animals are found, but the continued existence of many species now rests on the outcome of human-driven climate change.

Rising temperatures are moving the available climate niches of many species into areas which were previously too cool. While their…

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