Plants Can Cope with Repeated Droughts Badly

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An international research team has investigated how grass and bushland ecosystems react to repeated droughts. The result is sobering. In Austria, too, researchers at the University of Innsbruck see the drier regions of the east and south as well as parts of the Alps particularly at risk. As a result of the advancing, man-made climate change, the likelihood of extreme betting events increases. This applies to heavy rain as well as extremely long-…