Temperate Forest News Today

lukasz krupski is in the uk this week to receive an award for deciding to blow the whistle at the company and leak internal memos allegedly regarding safety issues, from teslas norway headquarters. the firm has declined to comment. heres our tech editor zoe kleinman. over the years software updates in autopilot gets even better. this is how tesla wanted autopilot software to be seen, assisting a human driver who was ultimately still in control. but when this former employee voice conce...

Aim: Increased tree mortality linked to droughts and fires is occurring across temperate regions globally. Vegetation recovery has been widely reported; however, less is known about how disturbance may alter forests structurally and functionally across environmental gradients. We examined whether dry forests growing on low-fertility soils were more resilient to coupled extreme drought and severe fire owing to lower tree mortality rates, higher resprouting success and persistence of juveniles rel...

Alaska Airlines flight attendant Amber May was preparing for takeoff from Atlanta to Seattle last summer when a passenger s call light came on. May hu...

Open access notables From our government/NGO reports section, World Weather Attributions latest report Extreme heat in North America, Europe and China in July 2023 made much more likely by climate change:

Wyoming Seminary’s Arts and Science Departments will host an opening reception for their Biome Project exhibit on Thursday, April 20 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Elevated tree mortality and reduced recruitment of new trees linked to drought and fires has been reported across a range of forests over the last few decades. Forests that resprout new foliage epicormically from buds beneath the bark are considered highly resilient to disturbance, but are potentially at risk of elevated mortality, demographic shifts and changes to species composition due to synergistic effects of drought and fire. Despite this, the effects of drought-fire interactions on such f...

Given the state of the world, I wanted to start off PM with something sweet: Today, the Woodland Park Zoo announced the birth of a male pudu. He was born on May 5. South American pudus are the smallest deer species in the world! “The fawn and mother are healthy and bonding well," Woodland Park Zoo co-curator Shawn Pedersen said in a press release. "We’re confident their bonding will continue as the fawn gets more...

Aim: The aims were: (1) to identify the environmental drivers of interannual variation in wildfire extent and severity; (2) to examine temporal trends in climatic potential for large and severe wildfires; and (3) to assess whether environmental conditions experienced during the 2019–2020 mega-fire season were anomalous. Location: South-eastern Australia. Time period: 1953–2020. Major taxa studied: Temperate forests. Methods: We used satellite-derived fire severity mapping from 1988 to 2020 t...

Elevated atmospheric [CO2] (‘eCO2’) may alter species composition within vegetation types by favouring the growth of some species over others. However, other related changes in climate conditions, such as increased frequency and severity of drought, may reduce eCO2 fertilisation effects on plant growth. For many species, it is not known if responses will reflect variability in trait adaptations due to environment. We grew seedlings of nine species of eucalypts indicative of three regional ve...

Increases in tree mortality linked to drought and fires have been reported across a range of forests globally over the last few decades. Forests that resprout epicormically/aerially should be the most resistant and resilient to changes in fire regime, yet they may be at risk of increased mortality, demographic shifts and changes to species composition due to the compounding effects of drought and fire. Despite this, the synergistic effects of drought and fire frequency on resprouters has receive...