Plants In The UK Are Flowering A Whole Month Earlier, According To The Study
Rising temperature is one of the major concerns of climate change right now. For climate change, all the plants and shrubs are flowering in the UK at this time of the year.
While all the Europeans are enjoying the sudden warmth, meanwhile it is a matter of major concern.
For the early spring, the autumn leaves fall has been delayed. This uncertain change in weather can cause a serious problem.
According to the current study, if the global temperature rises then spring might start from February, which wouldn’t very good for the whole environment.
This change would affect the whole ecosystem, along with affecting the birds, worms, and creatures.
Professor Ulf Büntgen from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Geography commented, ‘The results are truly alarming’.
He added more, ‘When plants flower too early, it is expected to have detrimental consequences for wildlife, agriculture and gardeners’.
What he said is true to every core, the whole ecosystem is interconnected to everything. If anything changes even the slightest bit, it will definitely have a repercussion and change.
In a lot of places, spring is coming a little bit early than its actual time, but till now the birds and other animals haven’t adapted yet.
In winter the plants and trees put themselves in ‘winter sleep’ mode to protect them, but the early spring is bringing the ‘vegetarian period’ earlier, so if a frost happens the plants can even die.
From the recent study, scientists are saying that fruits are a main source of food for the birds and some animals, as the whole process of harvesting the fruit is related to flowers, then it can be said that it is going to damage the course of fruits too.
The early flowering is putting the fruits farmers in danger.
In the studies of previous years, it is shown that before in 2019 Japan had its early cherry blossoms in 1200 years. In the U.S. the sunflower bloomed early than usual. It might be enjoyable for the onlookers but it becomes harder for the farmers.
As everything is an integral part of the ecosystem, so does the growth of birds, creatures, and animals, they also have to suffer from it. The scientists call it an ‘ecological mismatch’.
Scientists are trying to evaluate the changes of all the native plants from previous year’s records.
Dr. John David, the RHS head of horticulture taxonomy said, ‘The main focus of this study is on native plants and so we don’t yet have a clear picture of the full impact of these changes on garden plants, but would expect a similar pattern and have seen indications of this in our own RHS gardens such as the apple flowering times in our orchard at RHS Garden Wisley’.
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