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Mongabay: An icon of conservation and wilderness worldwide, Yellowstone National Park could see its ecosystem flip due to increased big fires from climate change warn experts in a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). A sudden increase in large fires-defined as over 200 hectares (500 acres)-by mid-century could shift the Yellowstone ecosystem from largely mature conifer forests to younger forests with open shrub and grasslands.
"Large, severe fires are normal for this ecosystem.......
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Yellowstone burning: big fires to hits world’s first national park annually by 2050
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 25th, 2011
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