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Climate Change Effect On Plant Communities Is Buffered by Large Herbivores, New Research Suggests
2013-02-20 14:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The study's insights are based on a novel approach by Eric Post, a Penn State University professor of biology, who simulated climate change and integrated the effects of large, plant-eating mammals in a 10-year arctic field experiment. The results of the research suggest that plant communities in the Arctic are more likely to resist destabilization by climate change if populations of caribou, musk ox, and other large herbivores remain intact. "The study demonstrates that grazing by these large herbivores...
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