NASA: Climate change may bring big ecosystem changes
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 09:02
in Earth & Climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth's land surface and will drive the conversion of nearly 40 percent of land-based ecosystems from one major ecological community type - such as forest, grassland or tundra - toward another, according to a new NASA and university computer modeling study.
