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Tropical flowers are blooming weeks later than they used to through climate change

Climate change has caused some tropical plants to flower earlier or later than they used to; in some cases by a matter of weeks or even months, according to a study of 8,000 flowers across more than two centuries, published in PLOS One by Skylar Graves and Erin Manzitto-Tripp of the University of Co...

Tropical flowers are blooming weeks later than they used to through climate change
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Climate change has caused some tropical plants to flower earlier or later than they used to; in some cases by a matter of weeks or even months, according to a study of 8,000 flowers across more than two centuries, published in PLOS One by Skylar Graves and Erin Manzitto-Tripp of the University of Colorado–Boulder.

Originally published at Phys.org

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