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The Climate Crisis is Changing the Colour of Flowers but Donald Trump Still Doesn't Believe it
News 18No, it?s not the lyrics of a Hindi film song. Since pigmentation in plants also affects floral thermoregulation, the study suggests climate warming may additionally impact pigmentation also. To find out the effects of climate change on flora, scientists used 1,238 herbarium specimens collected from 1941 to 2017 to test whether a change in UV floral pigmentation was associated with altered ozone and temperature in 42 species across three continents. READ: Flowers Are Changing Colours Due to Rise in Temperature and Climate Change, Shows Study The petals were photographed using UV-sensitive cameras to observe changes in UV pigment, and scientists also looked at preserved specimens of flowers. The study says there is a rapid phenotypic response of floral pigmentation to human-made climate change which has shown that global warming may affect pollination through its impact on floral color, with repercussions for plants’ reproductive fitness.
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