Plants Can Move Uphill and Downhill in Warming World
Photo: Flickr , CC Complex Systems = Complex Interactions So far, it has been widely accepted in scientific circles that on a warming planet, many species of plants would be moving up in altitude to stay in the kind of climate that they have evolved to best survive in. But a new study published yesterday is challenging this model and reminding us that the deeper we dig in complex systems, the more complicated it becomes. This doesn’t mean that the original assumptions won’t apply, just that there are… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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