[PCA] SCIENCE DAILY: World's Longest-Running Plant Monitoring Program Now Digitized

[De Angelis, Patricia]

World's Longest-Running Plant Monitoring Program Now Digitized

Apr. 29, 2013 — Researchers at the University of Arizona's Tumamoc Hill
have digitized 106 years of growth data on individual plants, making the
information available for study by people all over the world.

Knowing how plants respond to changing conditions over many decades
provides new insights into how ecosystems behave....

...The National Science Foundation, the USGS and the U.S. National Park
Service funded the archiving.

Full Article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130429154218.htm






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