The climate has a significant influence on the composition of plant growth and life forms. For example: Herbs, grasses and deciduous trees that shed their leaves in winter grow in the temperate deciduous forest in Slovenia. Photo: Holger Kreft
The climate has a significant influence on the composition of plant growth and life forms. For example: Herbs, grasses and deciduous trees that shed their leaves in winter grow in the temperate deciduous forest in Slovenia. Photo: Holger Kreft Researchers develop new method for assessing climate change risks to ecosystems. Climate change is altering the earth's ecosystems. In order to assess the risks, studies often calculate the extent to which regions are exposed to climatic changes in order to determine the threat to ecosystems. This approach may lead to false conclusions, as it ignores how living organisms react physiologically when, for example, the water content of the soil or the carbon dioxide content of the air changes. For this reason, researchers led by the University of Bayreuth and with the participation of the University of Göttingen have now investigated the consequences for the growth of over 135,000 plant species.
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