{"665846":{"#nid":"665846","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Plants Must Migrate to Survive Climate Change. But They Need Our Help","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe sheer speed of temperature increases in the climate crisis era, combined with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/time.com\/6173837\/capybaras-argentina-climate-change\/\u0022\u003Efragmentation of landscapes\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by human activity, is making it harder for trees and other plants to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/time.com\/6241549\/arizona-border-wall-mexico-animals-climate-change\/\u0022\u003Efollow their preferred climate conditions\u003C\/a\u003E. These changes are disrupting a millennia-old process of plant migration, and it could pose a major challenge to global efforts to protect wildlife and reforest land to fight climate change.\u0026nbsp;A study\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2201946119#sec-2\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;published Feb. 6\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;researchers\u0026nbsp;found that 75% of the dominant plant groups in North America, including trees like pines and oaks, have migrated across the region over the last 18,000 years to track the movement of their ideal growing conditions.\u0026nbsp;That plant migration will be harder to pull off over the coming decades, according to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/mcguire-dr-jenny-l\u0022\u003EJenny McGuire\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and a co-author of the study. \u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s so many barriers and filters to plant movement now. That could prevent them from shifting in some places,\u0026rdquo; she says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-02-15 20:23:23","changed_gmt":"2023-02-15 20:23:23","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/time.com\/6255709\/plant-migration-climate-change\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-02-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"168746","name":"Jenny McGuire"},{"id":"192159","name":"plant migration"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"192160","name":"climate warming"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}