Offsetting Climate Change's Effects

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Grasslands across North America will face higher summer temperatures and widespread drought by the end of the century, according to a new Harvard study on the effects of climate change.

But those negative effects will be largely offset, the study predicts, by an earlier start to the spring growing season and warmer winter temperatures

Led by Koen Hufkens, a post-doctoral fellow working in the lab of Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Andrew Richardson, a team of researchers developed a highly detailed model that allows researchers to predict how grasslands from Canada to Mexico will react to climate change. The model is described in a February 29 paper published in Nature Climate Change.