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redOrbit: An 18-year study of 27,000 individual trees by National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded scientists finds that tree growth and fecundity--the ability to produce viable seeds--are more sensitive to climate change than previously thought.
The results, published tomorrow in the journal Global Change Biology, identify earlier spring warming as one of several factors that affect tree reproduction and growth.
They also show summer drought as an important but overlooked risk factor for tree survival,......
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Study Demonstrates Climate Change Effects On Forests
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 5th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation