Higher temperatures caused by global warming can disrupt trees' ability to keep track of time, with potential consequences for their ability to sequester carbon or even survive. Climate change is already disrupting the timing of events in ecosystems by mixing migration, reproduction and food cycles that were historically intricately coordinated. But like humans and other animals, plants have a genetic ability to keep track of time that works independently of their ecosystems.

María Verónica Arana from the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in Argentina… (Christie Taylor, more at newscientist.com)