Nov
12
2010
Warm spell spurred tropical biodiversity
Some like it hot, including the plants living in South America's tropical rain forests 56 million years ago. As global average temperatures spiked 5 degrees Celsius over a period of 10,000 years — a geologic blink of an eye — plant diversity in northern South America also soared, researchers report in the Nov. 12 Science.
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