Study: Plants Might Lack Traits Needed to Cope With Climate Change
▻http://www.voanews.com/content/study-plants-might-lack-traits-needed-to-cope-with-climate-change/1818866.html
Flowering plants lived in warm tropical climates 243 million years ago. Since then, they have spread across the planet into much harsher places. George Washington University ecologist Amy Zanne and her colleagues wanted to understand how the plants survived in a colder environment.
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Zanne and her team also plan to study plants in warm or dry environments. The study suggests that modern flowering plants, trees and agricultural crops may not have the traits‒or the time needed‒to cope with human-induced climate change.
▻http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12872.html