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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Environment
Emily Beament

AI and digital tech used to chart climate impact and extinction risk for plants

Digitising plants at Kew (Jeff Eden/RBG Kew/PA) -

Artificial intelligence has helped reveal how plants are shifting flowering times across the world due to climate change, a new report has said.

A global study using AI to analyse eight million digitalised plant specimens dating back a century revealed flowering has shifted by 2.5 days earlier or later per decade on average, disrupting relationships between plants and pollinators.

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