Thursday, May 3, 2012

Plants responding to climate change more than thought

TG Daily: Experiments on how plants respond to climate change may have lulled us into a false sense of security by dramatically underestimating the effects. An analysis of 50 plant studies on four continents has found that shifts in the timing of flowering and leafing in plants due to global warming appear to be much greater than estimated by warming experiments. "This suggests that predicted ecosystem changes - including continuing advances in the start of spring across much of the globe - may be far...

URL: http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-features/63138-plants-responding-to-climate-change-more-than-thought
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