Global warming threatens plant diversity
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 18:14
in Earth & Climate
In the coming decades, climate change is set to produce worldwide changes in the living conditions for plants. Thus today's cool, moist regions could in future provide habitats for additional species, and in arid and hot regions the climatic prerequisites for a high degree of plant diversity will deteriorate.
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