Results show temperature and
vegetation growth at northern latitudes now resemble those found 4 degrees to 6 degrees of latitude farther south as recently as 1982.
Vegetation growth at Earth's northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA - funded study based on a 30 - year record of land surface and newly improved satellite data sets.
Not exact matches
Germination,
growth and flowering of aquatic and semi-aquatic
vegetation at all sites receiving water.
To examine historical changes in
growth and mortality rates of the
vegetation there, the scientists looked
at forest biomass, the cumulative result of past
growth.
Research conducted by Jin - Soo Kim and Professor Jong - Seong Kug from the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering
at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), in collaboration with Professor Su - Jong Jeong from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering
at South University of Science and Technology of China, has shown that the warmer Arctic has triggered cooler winters and springs in North America, which has in turn weakened
vegetation growth and lowered carbon uptake capacity in its ecosystems.
CO2 has a well - known seasonality with concentration minima in late summer,
at the end of the
vegetation and leaf
growth season, and higher levels during winter.
and the benefits of increased CO2 over
at least the next few decades... if the increased CO2 produces increased
vegetation and crop
growth....
Something similar for
vegetation: increased temperatures will increase plant
growth (but
at the same time plant decay), which will give a short time extra
growth, besides a long time shift in total
growth area.
Analysis of satellite - sensed
vegetation greenness and meteorological station data suggest an enhanced plant
growth and lengthened growing season duration
at northern high latitudes since the 1980s (Zhou et al., 2001, 2003c).