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Plants boost carbon uptake through water efficiency, not heat adaptation, global analysis reveals

An international team of scientists has discovered that plants are not responding to global warming in the way researchers long assumed. Scientists have expected that ecosystems would keep pace with warming by rising the temperature at which photosynthesis works best.

Plants boost carbon uptake through water efficiency, not heat adaptation, global analysis reveals
Image: Phys.org
An international team of scientists has discovered that plants are not responding to global warming in the way researchers long assumed. Scientists have expected that ecosystems would keep pace with warming by rising the temperature at which photosynthesis works best.

Originally published at Phys.org

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