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Warming climate unlikely to cause extinction of ancient Amazon trees
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 13:10
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Amazon Rainforest (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
New genetic analysis has revealed that many Amazon tree species are likely to survive man-made climate warming in the coming century, contrary to previous findings that temperature increases would cause them to die out.
A study, published in the latest edition of Ecology and Evolution, reveals the surprising age of some Amazonian tree species – more than 8 million years – and therefore shows that they have survived previous periods as warm as many of the global warming scenarios forecast for the year 2100.
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