Climate change impacts Europe’s mountain plants: study

Agence France-Presse: The acceleration of climate change is stressing mountain plants in Europe and driving them to migrate to higher altitudes, according to a study released on Thursday by US researchers. The plant migration is also decreasing species diversity, the study`s authors said in the April 20 edition of the journal Science. The study was based on an inventory of flora on 66 mountains between northern Europe and the Mediterranean. An increasing number of plant species was found only on mountains in...

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