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Question How relevant is new genetic diversity for plant/animal populations badly bottlenecked several centuries ago?
Scenario: A major ecological disaster occurred five hundred years ago, in which large numbers of species (including almost all wild fauna) went extinct. Assume that the environment both before and after is modern-Earth equivalent; effects not discussed here mitigated the major effects on temperature,...
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over 6 years ago
Question Turning medieval-style "elemental" effects into modern scientific ones
I'm building a near-future world on top of someone else's older world with not-entirely-well-thought-out "elemental" magic. I'm willing to use "because magic!" arbitrarily to answer questions of how effects happen, but I'm looking for scientific answers to what might actually be going on in the world...
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over 6 years ago
Question Which plant species would be most likely to recover after a decade of no light?
Presume a decade of darkness, after a several months of steadily shortening daylight. Assume that the temperature and weather patterns remain (inexplicably) fairly unchanged. Ten years later, when the sun comes back: which species of flora and fauna are most likely to be capable of recovering? I kn...
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over 6 years ago