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Rising species numbers on Europe's mountaintops may mask increasing losses of high-elevation plant specialists

Rising species numbers on Europe's mountaintops may mask increasing losses of high-elevation plant specialistsWorldPing

Decades of warming have relaxed cold-temperature constraints on mountain plant distribution and increased species numbers on mountaintops.

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