Brea Perry

So maybe they're out foraging in the open at the cooler times of day instead of the optimal time that they would normally do it.

But we don't actually know whether or not

a lot of them died, for example.

And that kind of gets the reason I'm making that point is that these heat waves just erupt very quickly without much warning, right?

And so scientists don't have time to, you know, plan a study and plan exactly how we're going to

you know, collect the evidence for every type of species out there.

We just had to, you know, make do with what we had, which was by reaching out and talking to all sorts of scientists and say, did you happen to be out observing nature during this heat wave?

And can you share data and can we work together and try to figure this out?

They could be way worse.

Yeah, so that might be a case of what we could legitimately call winners.

So some of the plants, I think, on the landscape were winners in the sense that they were able to absorb more carbon.

And the reason for that is because, well,

the area that the heat dome affected was so massive, right?

So it was over almost all of BC and into Alberta and Oregon and Washington.

And so across that huge area, there are some areas that just happen to normally be a little bit cooler and wetter, right?

And so those areas, if they heat up a bit, it can actually be good for them.

It's like they're performing better than they would have normally.

Whereas the areas that are normally hot and dry, that pushed them past their limit.

We're heading towards different ecosystems, ecosystems that maybe have different species in them as new species move in from further south.

But we know that we can also be really proactive with our management.