Climate Change Affecting Walden Pond Plants

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT/AP: Climate Change Affecting Walden Pond Plants
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 27, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Naturalist Henry David Thoreau might well be surprised that while much of the land around Walden Pond remains undeveloped, many of the plants he knew so well are gone, probably a result of climate change.

Some 27 percent of the species documented by Thoreau in the mid-1800s have disappeared, researchers report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

And as many as 36 percent exist there in such small numbers that their disappearance may be imminent, report researchers led by Charles C. Davis of Harvard University.

Warming temperatures have led to changes in the timing of seasonal activities in some plant species, but not others, the team reports. The mean temperature in the area has risen 4.3 degrees Fahrenheit (2.4 Celsius) over the past century....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-SCI-Walden-Pond.html

[Uncle Joe]

1. The world is changing rapidly in all manner, large and small.

Thanks for the thread, DeepModem Mom.

Kicked and recommended.