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Ep. 595 - Disrupt Plants, Disrupt Life: A Climate Change Story
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What happens when you disrupts plants? You disrupt ecosystems! Paleobotany provides us with multiple case studies on how change plant communities affects all walks of life and can lead to mass extinctions across the globe. Joining us to talk about this is the Assistant Curator for La Brea Tar Pits & Museum Dr. Regan Dunn. Dr. Dunn's work is uncovering sobering insights into how climate and plants interact during important periods in Earth's history such as the extinction of the dinosaurs and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and lead to massive ecosystem disruptions. Her work spans millions of years and has a lot to teach us about how ongoing climate change will upset our own way of…