Climate Warms, Plants in Antarctica Flower Faster

TRIBUNNEWS.COM — The phenomenon of global warming turns out to have an impact on the environment in Antartika.

Growth plant in the south pole area flowering is faster than usual and this is happening massively.

This news is bad news for the earth, as it represents a tipping point for the region’s changing ecosystems.

Scientists have previously observed increased growth of flowering plants due to climate change in the Northern Hemisphere, but the latest findings are the first to be recorded in southern Antarctica.

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Citing New Scientist, Tuesday (15/2/2022) in a study published in Current Biology, Nicoletta Cannone of the University of Insubria, Italy and her colleagues measured the growth of two plant real flower Antartika.

Second plant those are Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quiteensis. Researchers take measurements plant at a number of locations on Signy Island during 2009 to 2019.

Researchers then compared their observations with surveys from 50 years earlier. They found Signy Island denser by plant.

Not only that, due to climate change, flowering plants in Antarctica such as Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quiteensis are also growing faster every year as the climate warms.

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Deschampsia antarctica grew more in a 10 year period while Colobanthus quiteensis grew five times more over the same period.

“Growth appears to be accelerating and is clearly visible in the region,” said Peter Convey of the British Antarctic Survey.

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