Climate Change to Cripple Southwestern Forests
Trees Face Rising Drought Stress and Mortality as Climate Warms
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Drought and climate change are causing extensive forest dieback in the U.S. West as well as worldwide. These photos show dead ponderosa pines in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico killed by a combination of drought stress and attacks by bark beetles on weakened trees. Photographer: Craig D. Allen, USGS.
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Combine the tree-ring growth record with historical information, climate records, and computer-model projections of future climate trends, and you get a grim picture for the future of trees in the southwestern United States. T...
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