Nothophagus pumilio tree growing in Patagonia
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High temperatures brought about by global warming can disrupt trees' ability to track time, impacting their ability to sequester carbon and even their ability to survive.
Climate change is already disrupting the timing of events in ecosystems by shuffling historically intricately orchestrated migration, reproduction, and food cycles. However, like humans and other animals, plants have a genetic ability to track time that functions independently of the ecosystem.
Maria Veronica Arana At the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina…
Source: www.newscientist.com
