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Joel Kontinen
Scientist used to believe that a tree’s age was
determined by the annual rings of the tree.
However, this might not be true.
“The higher temperatures brought on by global warming
can disrupt trees’ ability to track time, with potential consequences for their
capacity to sequester carbon or even survive.
Climate change is already disturbing the timings of events in
ecosystems by shuffling migrations, breeding, and food cycles that have
historically been intricately coordinated. But like humans and animals,
plants have a genetic ability to track time that functions independently of
their ecosystems.”
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