Inside America's 'forest census'
World's oldest tree ring laboratory helping U.S. Forest Service predict effects of changing climate
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World's oldest tree ring laboratory helping U.S. Forest Service predict effects of changing climate
World's oldest tree ring laboratory helping U.S. Forest Service predict effects of changing climate
This article looks at recent research published in Communications Biology, which looks at the climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests.
For a long time, ecologists assumed tree rings to be absent in tropical trees because of a lack of temperature and rain fluctuations in the trees' environment.
A new study has found that tropical trees growth is reduced in years when the dry season is drier and warmer than normal.