Warming climate may impact animals' ability to eat some toxic plants

ENN
Jan 16, 2016, 9:20 am21 pts
University of Utah lab experiments found that when temperatures get warmer, woodrats suffer a reduced ability to live on their normal diet of toxic creosote - suggesting that global warming may hurt plant-eating animals."This study adds to our understanding of how climate change may affect mammals, in that…

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