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In grasslands, longer spring growing season offsets higher summer temperatures
2016-03-01 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Grasslands across North America will face higher summer temperatures and widespread drought by the end of the century, according to a new study. But those negative effects in vegetation growth will be largely offset, the research predicts, by an earlier start to the spring growing season and warmer winter temperatures. Led by ecologists Andrew Richardson and Koen Hufkens of Harvard University, a team of researchers developed a detailed model that enables predictions of how grasslands from Canada...
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