Climate change may bring big ecosystem shifts, NASA says
Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 23:30
in Earth & Climate
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.