Scientists find climate change to have paradoxical effects in coastal wetlands

Monday, March 23, 2009 - 17:14 in Earth & Climate

Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is largely responsible for recent global warming and the rise in sea levels. However, a team of scientists, including two Smithsonian ecologists, have found that this same increase in CO2 may ironically counterbalance some of its negative effects on one of the planet's most valuable ecosystems -wetlands. The team's findings are being published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of March 23.

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