Climate Change Affecting Plant Species
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Climate Change Affecting Plant Species

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 202614 min
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Dr Kale Sniderman, lead author of the research, joins Philip Clark and listeners to Nightlife to explore what climate change tells us about the future of plants as our planet warms.

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So what might be in store for the future of Earth's plant life

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ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more. There are around 400,000 species of flowering plants on Earth. But have you ever wondered why and how they became so successful? New research suggests that, yes, climate change has played a big part with periods of extreme warmth,

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driving both mass extinctions and the emergence of new plant species, as you might expect. By looking back more than 130 million years, scientists have found a fascinating link between the Earth's climate and the incredible diversity of plant life we see today.

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So what might be in store for the future of Earth's plant life in the current era of rapid global warming? Dr Cale Stadterman is the leader of a new research on this matter and an honorary research fellow at the University of Melbourne

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