Climate-adapting plants eaten more by insects
Leon Godwyn/UC-Davis Early-blooming species 'lengthen the amount of time herbivores have in a given year to eat their leaves.' scientist says. Suggested Event Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021 Many plant species are leafing out and flowering earlier in response to rising temperatures, and those that are not are “declining at alarming rates in some circumstances,” says urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology in newly published research in the journal Global Change Biology. “However, the plants that ar...
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