Botany One @botany.one · Jul 18 📝 What 17,000 Pressed Flowers Revealed About Arctic Climate Change 🧵 doi.org/pwnc The brief Arctic summer is getting briefer. Research using herbaria shows that flowering times are shifting. Not all plants are responding the same way & that’s a problem #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief (1/10)
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The research by Panchen and colleagues used herbarium records of 97 species from the past 120 years. Digitisation of herbarium material allowed the team to examine 17,000 individual specimens, tagged with a date and place of collection to see how plants responded to climate. (2/10)