Study Shows Experiments Underestimate Plant Responses to Climate Change
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 17:00
in Earth & Climate
Experiments may dramatically underestimate how plants will respond to climate change in the future. That's the conclusion of an analysis of 50 plant studies on four continents, published this week in an advance online issue of the journal Nature, which found that shifts in the timing of flowering and leafing in plants due to global warming appear to be much greater than estimated by warming experiments.