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[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

What flowers? New species or one that crossed the ocean?

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

https://www.sciencealert.com/striking-expansion-of-two-antarctic-flowering-plants-is-a-climate-warning

From the article:

Flowering plants in the Antarctic region are rapidly expanding, scientists say, indicating the continuing effects of climate change on the continent. The findings suggest we may have reached a tipping point in this fragile, remote ecosystem.

A new study of this plant expansion looked at the two flowering plants native to Antarctica, Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis. Researchers measured the growth and expansion of these plants on a small subantarctic island called Signy Island from 2009 to 2019.

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Ok just wondering if it was some long frozen plantlife that just thawed out recently.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Nah just two full months earlier than it should have happened

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some seeds are carried place to place on the winds. They probably came from Australia or southern Chile or Argentina or some such place.

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