Gradual? On earth timescales? There have been tons of articles showing that's not happening, read one today about the great heat wave 'die off' from the last weeks. plants/animals can't adapt on near the timescale of decades from what I've read.

But maybe we can assist finding survivors, I remember reading an article a while ago about assisted coral evolution found a bunch of google scholar on it.

https://scholar.google.fr/scholar?q=climate+change+coral+evo...