Climate change will cause abrupt shifts in Great Britain’s vegetation 

Climate change could lead to sudden shifts in vegetation growing in parts of Great Britain, according to a new study from the University of Exeter. The researchers combined high resolution images with climate models to investigate the potential impacts of two climate change scenarios across the country.  The study revealed that even gradual environmental changes could trigger abrupt shifts in the amount of vegetation in some places. Professor Tim Lenton is the director of Exeter's Global Systems Institute (GSI). "We didn't expect to see hundreds of localized abrupt shifts …