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Tag - Climate change
William Salter
Indirect effects of drought on bumblebee pollination of common charlock
How does drought influence floral traits of Sinapis arvensis and how does this affect visitation by bumblebee pollinators?
Advancing flowering is altering the dates of some cultural events
Concern that flowers are blooming earlier is about more than wish to return to the good old days.
Alun Salt
Hakea drought resistance determined by climate factors rather than functional traits
Cavitation resistance appears to be genetic, making it useful as a predictor of drought resistance.
Erin Zimmerman
The impact of climate change on Alpine bryophyte communities
How does 18 years of experimental warming influence the bryophyte communities of sub-arctic heath and meadow ecosystems of northern Sweden?
Lomas microrefugia subject to random, but not function-based losses due to lowered rainfall
The finding bodes well for the survival of Lomas communities in the Atacama Desert under future climate change.
Climate change will scramble the biological clock of the forest floor
Plants react to a combination of changes in temperature and water availability in different ways.
Urban environments and climate change: how do we choose resilient urban trees for the future?
On a hot day in the city, the shade under a leafy tree can be a welcome relief from the sun. But can you imagine if you looked around and there were no trees in sight? Or the only trees you can see are either dead or...
Laura Skates
SoyFACE for 3D soybean canopy modelling under elevated carbon dioxide
New mathematical model dissects how soybean plants might grow larger in the future.
Juniper Kiss
Biotic interactions of native and non-native species under future warming
How do abiotic and biotic factors influence range expansion of closely related native and non-native Eugenia shrub species?
Global warming and earlier flowering: a thermogradient tunnel experiment
Winter annual Arabidopsis ecotypes have a distinct advantage over summer annuals in expected global warming scenarios.
Running rings around world history
Tree story: The history of the world written in rings, by Valerie Trouet 2020. Johns Hopkins University Press What links the following: That (in)famous ‘hockey stick graph’ which showed that Earth’s temperature...
Nigel Chaffey
New research shows that Bioenergy plants need to be in the right location to deliver benefits
Finding the win-wins for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) as we move to net zero – for the UK at least, size matters.
Caspar Donnison
Gail Taylor
Feeding (or not feeding) a fungus: plants may not be so good to their fungal partners after all
Interactions between plants and fungal symbionts are not always balanced affairs.
Liam Elliott
