Global warming seriously affects both the climate and plants. Some of these examples —
Scientists have found another negative effect of earlyspring - in the course of their work, they studied how, from the mid-20th century to the present, global warming is changing the flowering process, as well as the time the first leaves appear in several tree species - ash, alder and horse chestnut.
It is noted that usually all these trees bloom indifferent time. However, the increase in average annual temperatures affected their bloom. Therefore, ash and alder began to bloom a few days earlier than in the middle of the 20th century. However, this had almost no effect on the time of appearance of their leaves, and vice versa - the leaves of the horse chestnut began to appear much earlier, and the flowering time almost did not change.
It turned out that the period of time thatoccurs between flowering and the appearance of leaves, for every 10 years it increases by approximately 0.6-1.3 days. Because of this, the plants have become more vulnerable to frost.
This feature negatively affects the reproduction of trees, as well as the accumulation of biomass. Scientists continue to monitor trees to understand how critical these changes are.
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