Ice ages wiped out Australian plant diversity: study

PTI : Melbourne, Wed Feb 13 2013, 16:03 hrs

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Dr Greg Jordan of the School of Plant Sciences at the University of Tasmania said not only has the study overturned current thought on the role of extinction in plant diversity, it has implications for understanding how Australian plant diversity will deal with current and future climate change.

"The species that went extinct in SE Australia during the ice ages were likely to be the ones most sensitive to rapid climate change, meaning that the species that now grow in eastern Australia may be more capable of tolerating rapid changes than predicted by current science," he said.

The study was published in the journal National Academy of Sciences.

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