News Headline

Evolution follows climate: Oaks adapted rapidly to climate change in the Anthropocene

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2022-01-17

The acceleration of global warming due to human activities has made the pace of tree evolution and adaptation a core concern of researchers and foresters. Researchers from INRAE, the ONF, the CEA and the universities of Uppsala (Sweden) and Zhejiang (China) studied the evolution of oak trees in three French forests over the last three centuries, from the cold period of the Little Ice Age to the warming caused by human activities.

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https://phys.org/news/2022-01-evolution-climate-oaks-rapidly-anthropocene.html