Flowering Plants and World Climate (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Flowering Plants and World Climate

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The blue regions of this world map show where annual precipitation is higher because of the presence of flowering plants, according to supercomputer simulations. The illustration is reproduced from Kevin Boyce and Jung-Eun Lee’s article, posted online June 16, 2010, in the Journal of the Royal Society B.

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C.K. Boyce and J.-E. Lee

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