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A secondary report corroborates that Northern Hemisphere vegetation frequently exceeded non-frost productivity after late-spring frost rather than merely recovering to baseline. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: After the Frost: Damaged Plants Bounce Back Stronger Across the Northern Hemisphere · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:e0c313e4171a7ca24c51cedfc3d9e7b1b8ebdcedadf3498bc2c15935950bc2f4

A new study published in Nature Plants challenges that assumption on a continental scale. Analyzing vegetation across the Northern Hemisphere, the researchers report that ecosystems frequently do more than recover from late-spring frost — they overcompensate, ultimately reaching productivity levels that exceed what they would have achieved without the freeze.