Warming climate pushes plants up the mountain

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Comparing plant communities today with a survey taken 50 years ago, University of Arizona-led research provides the first on-the-ground evidence for Southwestern plants being pushed to higher elevations by an increasingly warmer and drier climate

In a rare opportunity to directly compare plant communities in the same area now with a survey taken 50 years ago, a University of Arizona-led research team has provided the first on-the-ground evidence that Southwestern plants are being pushed to higher elevations by an increasingly warmer and drier climate.

 

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-08/uoa-wcp081413.php

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The beauty of micro climates? can imagine they change too - not unlike climate on a slightly larger scale - whereby variable patterns come and go, over the years, decades, centuries, if not thousands of years.