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Explain the effects of climate change on the diversity of plants​

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• Climate change increases local plant species richness, at least temporarily

• Empirical and modeled data suggest an increase of ∼5% per decade in cool regions

• Climatic perturbation is identified as a process driving biodiversity accrual

• Uneven global coverage of field data could be obscuring other climatic effects

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