> Good news everyone, we are gaining new green spaces!
Is not so simple, sadly. This is a well known ecological problem. A huge problem.
Big mountains have lots of endemic flowers that evolved for standing very high and cold places and growing very slow. Now they are being pushed literally towards the top of the mountain. They can't compete with the other plants in warmer places.
Eventually the entire mountain will go out of their ecological range in the same way as an island that is being slowly sinked in the sea. At this moment the entire ecosystem and thousands of unique species will go extinct. And is happening at a worlwide scale, all at the same time. Himalayan plants could survive but most mountains do not have a upper level devoid of life.
This species specially adapted to stand really harsh places could be sorely missed in the future if we want to terraform other planets
Is not so simple, sadly. This is a well known ecological problem. A huge problem.
Big mountains have lots of endemic flowers that evolved for standing very high and cold places and growing very slow. Now they are being pushed literally towards the top of the mountain. They can't compete with the other plants in warmer places.
Eventually the entire mountain will go out of their ecological range in the same way as an island that is being slowly sinked in the sea. At this moment the entire ecosystem and thousands of unique species will go extinct. And is happening at a worlwide scale, all at the same time. Himalayan plants could survive but most mountains do not have a upper level devoid of life.
This species specially adapted to stand really harsh places could be sorely missed in the future if we want to terraform other planets