Global climate data insufficiently explains composition of local plant species, say geobotanists

The global climate influences regional plant growth—but not to the same extent in all habitats. This finding was made by geobotanists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) after analyzing more than 300,000 European vegetation plots. Their conclusion is that no general prediction can be made about the effects of climate change on the Earth’s vegetation; instead, the effects depend to a large degree on local conditions and the habitat under investigation. Their findings were published in Nature Communications.  Read More