The presence of sulfur in seagrasses and coral can indicate stresses caused by oxygen-poor areas of the ocean floor, and global warming.
Tag - global warming
Nigel Chaffey
There’s more to tree growth than hot air
One of the common claims about climate change is that it will be good for plants. Plants eat CO2 so more carbon dioxide must mean more food for plants. There are some problems with this idea. One is that plants also...
Alun Salt
Warming in the forests
While looking for something else, I found a couple of papers in JXB and Forestry that caught my eye. The popular expectation is that more CO2 is good for plants, because that’s what they breathe. What gets lost is...
A bit of warmth and we all go bananas!?
In a warming world, could bananas really replace potatoes?
Photosynthetic thermotolerance and leaf traits
Little is known about photosynthetic thermotolerance (PT) of tropical and sub-tropical wild plants and its association with leaf phenology and persistence. Zhang et al. use the temperature-dependent increase in minimum...
botanyone
Rejoice, ‘tis the real Bloom’s Day (to be sure…)
June 16th is the date upon which certain individuals around the world celebrate Irish writer James Joyce’s 1904-set literary classic Ulysses. Termed Bloom’s Day – after Leopold Bloom, the famously impenetrable novel’s...
Timberline formation and dynamics
Altitudinal timberlines are thought to be moving upward as a result of global climate change. Takahashi et al. evaluate how the timberline has formed in a zone between 2350–2600 m in central Japan where the conifer...
Vegetation structure and invasibility of arctic tundra
Plant productivity and the cover of shrubs, grasses and dead plant material in arctic tundra are predicted to increase and the cover of bryophytes to decrease in response to higher air temperatures. Eckstein et al...
