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New Research Shows Tree Roots Regulate CO2, Keep Climate Stable
Posted by Climate News: Tim Radford on February 19th, 2014
Climate News: Trees have become a source of continuous surprise. Only weeks after researchers demonstrated that old forest giants actually accumulate more carbon than younger, fast-growing trees, British scientists have discovered that the great arbiters of long-term global temperatures may not be the leaves of an oak, pine or eucalyptus, but the roots.
The argument, put forward by a team from Oxford and Sheffield Universities in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, begins with temperature. Warmer climates...
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Global Warming Pushes Native Plants to New Habitats Leaving Dependent Species at Risk
Posted by Climate News: Tim Radford on February 17th, 2014
Climate News: By 2100, vegetation patterns will be shifting in almost half the land area of the planet, according to new research in the journal Global and Planetary Change.
Song Feng of the University of Arkansas in the U.S. and colleagues in Nebraska, China and South Korea have taken a long cool look at what the projected patterns of warming are likely to do to the planet’s mosaic of climate types. And they predict dramatic changes.
Climate type is a century-old idea useful for making sense of geographical...