New Utah State University study suggests climate change may already be pushing plants to their limits

If you have a garden, there’s a good chance it is filled with signs of climate change, though they might not always be what you would expect.It seems obvious that as global temperatures increase, flowers might be inclined to bloom earlier. But Will Pearse, an assistant professor in Utah State University’s Department of Biology, had a hunch that the effects of a changing climate could be more profound.So Pearse, who has a background in evolutionary ecology, used unconventional statist