Vegetation ‘browning’ threatens Arctic carbon balance
Climate change damages Arctic plants more than previously thought
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Alexander Askew is a PhD student contributor to Physics World. He is at the University of Sheffield researching the palaeoecology of Northern Spain during the Middle Devonian period using plant microfossils.
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