Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Underestimating Climate Change's Effect On Plants

Every day we are reading articles that suggest that the initial ideas on how climate change will affect the environment are grossly naive and underestimate the impact in some cases in a major way.

ScienceMag: Plant Experiments Underestimate Climate Change Effects
The discovery that warming experiments are so far off worries some researchers. "That a trait like plant phenology, which is frequently thought to have a straightforward relationship with temperature, could be so mispredicted by warming experiments is a bit sobering..."

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