Fire-adapted trees should be able to take advantage of wildfires, but on the boundary between the boreal forest and the tundra, something odd is happening.
Tag - boreal forest
Alun Salt
The rise and fall of carbohydrates in the trees of the north
A new study tracks how paper birch trees prepare for a Canadian winter.
Fi Gennu
Climate change will scramble the biological clock of the forest floor
Plants react to a combination of changes in temperature and water availability in different ways.
There’s more to tree growth than hot air
One of the common claims about climate change is that it will be good for plants. Plants eat CO2 so more carbon dioxide must mean more food for plants. There are some problems with this idea. One is that plants also...
Reconstructing past xylogenesis of black spruce
Hemispheric-scale reconstructions of surface temperature fluctuations over the last millennium have identified the 20th century as uniquely warm. Boulouf Lugo et al. monitor timings of wood formation in black spruce...
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