UC Santa Barbara researchers part of statewide project to digitize flowering plant species, facilitating climate change research
by Jeff Mitchell
Most would agree that flowers play an important and colorful role in making the world around us a more beautiful place.
To close observers, however, flowers also play a key “canary in the coal mine” role: The timing of their blooms informs us of the ecological health of the planet and, specifically, about the growing intensity of global climate change.
