Scientists reconstructed a Wyoming forest from 56-million-year-old fossil leaves; it lost about 60% of its canopy during ancient warming and took more than 100,000 years to recover
- Wyoming tetons Representative image from CanvaDeep in the rock record of Wyoming, a layer of fossil leaves tells a quiet but powerful story about what happens to forests when the planet warms rapidly.
- About 56 million years ago, during a spike in global temperatures known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a lush subtropical forest that once covered the region lost roughly 60 percent of its canopy.
- New researchtitled 'Forest canopy decline under elevated CO2 during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum' published in the journal Science, based on tens of thousands of fossil leaves,
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- Wyoming tetons Representative image from CanvaDeep in the rock record of Wyoming, a layer of fossil leaves tells a quiet but powerful story about what happens to forests when the planet warms rapidly.
- About 56 million years ago, during a spike in global temperatures known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a lush subtropical forest that once covered the region lost roughly 60 percent of its canopy.
- New researchtitled 'Forest canopy decline under elevated CO2 during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum' published in the journal Science, based on tens of thousands of fossil leaves,
Sources: Times of India