And perhaps even these become impossible to preserve due to the accelerating pace of man-made ecological changes.

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Dr Jon Lovett, who led the work at York University, said ecological changes would predominantly influence pandas to decide where to live.

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Bennett has logged time with Reinhard in the mountains of Greece and Peru, and has traveled to the Galapagos Islands to help evolutionary theorist Frank Sulloway record ecological changes there.

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The presence of both pristine and rehabilitated forests makes Mount Kuwol an important area to study the ecological changes and effects of forest rehabilitation as well as the associated biodiversity.

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We don't yet know which species will benefit, and which will suffer in response to the changes, but because each species plays a specific ecological role on the tundra, the downfall of one species or proliferation of another could have a domino effect that disrupts the tundra's delicate food web.

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