'Living fossil' tree contains genetic imprints of rain forests under climate change
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 19:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The distinctive trunk and aerial roots of the tropical tree Symphonia globulifera in a rain forest in Panama. A "living fossil" tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the future.