With climate changing, Southern plants do better than Northern locals
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - 14:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Can plants and animals evolve to keep pace with climate change? A study published May 19 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that for at least one widely-studied plant, the European climate is changing fast enough that strains from Southern Europe already grow better in the north than established local varieties.