Invasive plants scale warming peaks quickest

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3134, 2017, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • As the climate warms up, invasive weeds are outpacing native Alpine plants to the tops of mountains, threatening them with extinction. To avoid warming temperatures, plants can migrate to cooler habitats higher up mountains, but new research is showing that invasive species are beating them to it. "We find that invasive species are responding to climate change far more quickly than the native ones;' says Matteo Dainese of the University of Wurzburg in Germany. He and his colleagues looked at the distributions of 1300 plant species over 20 years - from 1989 to 2009-on an area around Mount Baldo in north-east Italy.