Climate change is leaving native plants behind
February 8, 2016
A manzanita specimen from 1936 housed at the University and Jepson Herbaria at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Jon Christensen of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the department of History warns that native plants are struggling to keep up with changes around them as pollution from fuel burning and deforestation continues to warm the planet.
Source: Climate change is leaving native plants behind Climate Central, 8 Feb. 2016
Additional coverage about Jon Christenson’s work studying native plants reacting to climate change:
Ecosystems pulling apart as some plants shift habitats, possibly adapting to climate change UCLA Newsroom, 8 Feb. 2016