Blog Post Image: How red crabs on Christmas Island speak for the tropics

The crabs represent species that do not factor into a lot of climate-change research. The majority of studies focus on changes in temperate climates, such as the future severity and duration of summers and winters. Tropical animals migrate in response to wet-dry seasons. If fluctuations in rainfall become more extreme and frequent with climate change, then scores of animals could be in trouble. Photo by Allison Shaw, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology