Day and Night Temperature Differences Influence Global Patterns in Leaf Size (IMAGE)

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Day and Night Temperature Differences Influence Global Patterns in Leaf Size

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Giant leaf of the Paddle-leaf (Anthurium coriaceum), native to Brazil, but photographed here at the Sydney Botanic Garden, Australia. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 1 September 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by I.J. Wright at Macquarie University in Sydney, NSW, Australia, and colleagues was titled, "Global climatic drivers of leaf size."

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Peter Wilf

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