Michael Moore, Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology, studies dragonfly coloration and how it impacts sexual selection. But increasingly there is a twist: “We’re all realizing, ‘Oh, we need to be studying reproduction in addition to survival if we’re going to understand how organisms are going to respond to the climate over the next 20 to 50 years,’” said Moore. The Washington Post also produced this video describing a variety of research (including Moore’s) on animals’ (and possibly humans’) mating habits changing in response to rising temperatures.

Less attractive, less picky: How mating is changing in a hotter world
The Washington Post, Nov 28

The climate is changing mating patterns in animals
KCBS Radio San Fransisco, Nov 28