Editing Climate variability and change (section)

==== Wildlife ====
One of the most important ways animals can deal with climatic change is migration to warmer or colder regions.{{Sfn|Burroughs|2007|p=273}} On a longer timescale, evolution makes ecosystems including animals better adapted to a new climate.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Millington|first1=Rebecca|last2=Cox|first2=Peter M.|last3=Moore|first3=Jonathan R.|last4=Yvon-Durocher|first4=Gabriel|date=10 May 2019|title=Modelling ecosystem adaptation and dangerous rates of global warming|journal=Emerging Topics in Life Sciences|language=en|volume=3|issue=2|pages=221–31|doi=10.1042/ETLS20180113|pmid=33523155|issn=2397-8554|hdl=10871/36988|s2cid=150221323|hdl-access=free}}</ref> Rapid or large climate change can cause [[mass extinctions]] when creatures are stretched too far to be able to adapt.{{Sfn|Burroughs|2007|p=267}}