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Amazon Canopy Study Can Predict Responses To Climate Change And Human Activity
2014-03-04 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: By studying thousands of canopy tree species in the western Amazon, researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Sciences Department of Global Ecology have uncovered geographically nested patterns of chemical traits they say will help determine how the ecosystem will respond to changes in land use and climate. Writing in the March 3 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the study authors set out to determine how much variation there is in the chemicals generated...
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