Plant species' responses to climate change altered by novel competitors
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 12:10
in Biology & Nature
With climate change and rising average temperatures, many wild animals and plants are being forced into new habitats, their distributions shifting in elevation and latitude with differing velocities. For alpine plants, this could mean facing competition from species unknown to them, such as plants found at lower elevations today that migrate to higher elevations due to climate change.