Australia: Streams need trees to withstand climate change

Physorg: Researchers from Monash University, the Environment Protection Authority and the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research studied the effects of drought on Australia's fragile freshwater ecosystems using data collected in Victoria before, during and after the severe drought that lasted from 1997 until 2009. The sustained monitoring allowed researchers to compare how sites with differing levels of vegetation responded to sustained drought. The research, published in Global Change Biology,......

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