Climate Change 'boosts plants at first and then quickly stunts them'

Asian News International: Global warming may initially make the grass greener, but not for long, a new study has revealed. According to the new research results, plants may thrive in the early stages of a warming environment but then begin to deteriorate quickly. "We were really surprised by the pattern, where the initial boost in growth just went away," Zhuoting Wu, lead author of the study from Northern Arizona University (NAU), said. "As ecosystems adjusted, the responses changed," Wu said. For the study, ecologists...

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