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Natural history museums and herbaria are piled high with samples of flora and fauna dating as far back as 250 years. Now the scientific fervor over collecting samples of the natural world is helping climate scientists learn how warming trends are altering the timing of plants’ lives. A team of ecologists from the University of East Anglia (UEA), the University of Kent, the University of Sussex and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew took a look at 77 specimens of the early spider orchid collected between 1848 and 1958 and by … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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