From the warmth of termites hastening wood decomposition to the surprising chill of fungi, our understanding of nature's temperature regulation gets a shake-up.
Tag - global warming
Nigel Chaffey
Pollinators like moths are increasingly missing from a warming subarctic
The complex relationships between plants and their pollinators in subarctic Finland have changed dramatically across the last century
Eurekalert
Dale Maylea
Vegetation regulates energy exchange in the arctic
Despite the importance of high-latitude surface energy budgets for land-climate interactions in the rapidly changing Arctic, uncertainties in their prediction persist.
Warming wasps pollinate poorly
As temperatures rise, the life span of a crucial pollinator diminishes to the extent it may not be able to do its job.
Lessons from magnolias about past climatic events and plant evolution
Chinese scientists used data from Magnolia plastid genomes to peer back millions of years to understand Cenozoic climatic changes.
Juniper Kiss
Spring is coming a week earlier to European forests
Botanists found evidence for the effects of climate change stored in herbaria.
Alun Salt
Warm nights without respite accelerates the death of seedlings in a drought
A combination of morphological and physiological traits contribute to drought mortality, along with responses to night warming.
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?
William Salter
How do plants colonise new territories?
The research suggests that different categories of species have dissimilar seed germination niches, which contributes to explaining their coexistence.
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...
Top-up, and bottom-down effects of marine plankton
Members of the plankton are so-called because they don’t have the ability to move against modest currents in the water bodies they inhabit, i.e. they ‘wander’ or ‘drift’ (as in the meaning of the Greek word from which...
Functional traits of vascular plants colonizing alpine cushions
Global warming threatens species living in the highest and coldest areas. Alpine cushion plants are potentially endangered by stronger species expanding from lower elevations. This can be inferred from their ecological...
Alex Assiry
A heart(wood)-warming tale of methanogens
Mention of cave-dwelling plants living in extremis [see Uncovering underground Botany] brings to mind the real extremophiles of planet Earth, known – unsurprisingly! – as extremophiles. Although organisms in that...
