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Bleak future for Australia’s alpine flora – The West Australian
The rapid climate change that’s occurring in Australia’s alpine regions is having a devastating impact on native vegetation, a UNSW study has found.
Native plants in Australia’s alpine regions may not be adapting quickly enough to survive rapid climate change.
“Australian native alpine plants face a bleak future in the face of rapid climate change,” the University of NSW study’s lead author Meena Sritharan concluded.
The study of 21 plants from Kosciuszko National Park found 20 weren’t responding to warming conditions.
Just one species – the Star Plantain (Plantago muelleri) – adapted to warmer conditions by increasing in size.
A second plant…
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