EcoWatch: In a rare opportunity to directly compare today`s plant communities with a survey taken in the same area 50 years ago, a University of Arizona (UA)-led research team has provided the first on-the-ground evidence that Southwestern plants are being pushed to higher elevations by an increasingly warmer and drier climate.
The researchers assessed plants growing at different elevations in the same areas surveyed by botanists 50 years ago. Photo credit: Jeffrey Eble.
The findings confirm that previous...