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Tropical Forests Sensitive to Global Warming: A Study
2013-07-08 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Tropical forests are intensely sensitive to climate change, causing them to produce more flowers in response to only slight increases in temperature, according to a new study conducted by the University of California, Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). Published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the study, which used a new globally gridded satellite dataset, examined how changes in temperature, clouds and rainfall affect the number of flowers tropical...
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