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Saturday round-up: Bloomin’ Early
A 250-year study of flowering times shows that the last 25 years have been the earliest of all, while two papers challenge assumptions about greenhouse gas emissions from soil.
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Spider orchid flowering crawls forward with warming
Peak flowering occurs 6 days earlier for each degree increase
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Naturalists show climate effects from beyond the grave
Not zombie scientists, but museum collections provide data on how climate change is affecting timing of natural events like flowering
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Climate-driven species creep hangs in the balance
Competing influences are allowing the equatorial end of some organisms' range to stay in place, while warming allows them to move further polewards, but when the competition breaks down, population...
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Climate change shifts organisms in space and time
Duke University's Bill Morris finds the hills are alive with moving plants, and warns that climate change impacts could mean species that have worked together in the past will move out of sync.
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Climate rhythm shift brings early calving
Chillingham cattle, which are able to breed all year round, are having more calves in winter due to earlier springs, reducing their chances of surviving a year, find Sarah Burthe of the UK's Centre for...
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The hills are alive – with a changing plant mix
After surveying mountains across Europe, Harald Pauli at the University of Vienna, Austria, and scientists in the GLORIA network find a surprising increase in the amount of warmer temperature plants...
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If you question the numbers, ask the plants
While scientists reported 2011 as being the warmest La Niña year yet in recent weeks, changes in where plants can grow in the US and when they grow in China have perhaps demonstrated warming even more...
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Iconic authors help reveal record early flowering
150 years since Henry David Thoreau observed them, plants flower three weeks earlier thanks to climate change, find Boston University’s Libby Ellwood and her teammates.
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Worse extreme temperature effects urge farming precautions
Steps are needed to avoid damage and harvest failure in wheat, maize and rice crops caused by exposure to extreme temperatures during sensitive periods, finds Stanford University’s Sharon Gourdji.
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Warming makes flowers change dates, or don skates
Plants that fail to reset their flowering times have to move to keep their cool as the climate changes, Tatsuya Amano at the University of Cambridge and his teammates have found.
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Climate change-boosted disease could endanger China’s food supply
Bruce Fitt from the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, UK, and his teammates forecast that human driven shifts in flowering times, rain and temperature will mean fusarium ear blight ruins even...
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