Climbing Trees: Plants Move Uphill as World Warms [News]

Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 16:28 in Earth & Climate

Global warming is leaving trees behind, according to a new study in Science. An analysis of forest species in six French mountain ranges (the western Alps, northern Pyrenees, Massif Central, western Jura, Vosges and the Corsican range) shows that more than two thirds of them moved at least 60 feet (18.5 meters) higher on the mountainsides per decade during the 20th century. [More]

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