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Climate change’s frost harms early plant reproduction, study finds
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 5th, 2016
PhysOrg: The findings appear in the journal Global Change Biology.
Climate change has many ecological effects, such as altering flowering phenology, or the blooming time of wildflowers, across the world. Altering blooming time often affects plant reproduction and survival, but the mechanisms behind these changes are not well understood.
The researchers used two large-scale field experiments to assess how altering the phenology of the western spring beauty affects plant-pollinator interactions and plant...
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Studies show impact of forest management and deforestation on climate
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 5th, 2016
PhysOrg: Two groups of researchers, one studying forests in Europe the other forests around the world, have found that forest management may not be the answer to slowing global warming that some had hoped, and that forests have other climate impacts that are not being taken into consideration when making global climate predictions. Both groups have published papers describing their studies and findings in the journal Science.
In the first study, a team made up of French researchers obtained historical...