Victorian plant collectors could hold clue to climate change
Plants picked up to 150 years ago by Victorian collectors could hold the key to understanding climate change, according to a new study.
Recent studies using fresh specimens have shown that plants flower six days earlier for every 1C (1.8F) of global warming.
Now ecologists from the University of East Anglia and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have shown that pressed flowers back up the data....
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Recent studies using fresh specimens have shown that plants flower six days earlier for every 1C (1.8F) of global warming.
Now ecologists from the University of East Anglia and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have shown that pressed flowers back up the data....