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Spring greening in a warming world

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Warmer temperatures have been associated with an earlier emergence of spring leaves each year. New data, however, suggest that leaf emergence is becoming less sensitive to temperature as global temperatures rise. See Letter p.104

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Figure 1: Green and early.

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  1. Trevor F. Keenan is in the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia.,

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Keenan, T. Spring greening in a warming world. Nature 526, 48–49 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15633

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