Major changes in world's leaf growth patterns over recent decades

Major changes in world's leaf growth patterns over recent decades
Otago, New Zealand (SPX) Mar 05, 2015 - Extensive worldwide changes in the timing of leaf activity over the past few decades--which may have significant ecological and atmospheric consequences--have been revealed by a University of Otago, New Zealand research team analyzing satellite data from 1980 - 2012. Their findings, newly published in the journal Nature Climate Change, provide the first global picture of change in the seas ... more

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