Meng Lu (IMAGE)

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Meng Lu

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Ecologist Meng Lu measures green blades of sedge in the Global Change Research Wetland, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland. Lu led a discovery that under higher carbon dioxide, sedges like these grow shorter and thinner stems.

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Maria Sharova/Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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