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.
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...
Hemispheric-scale reconstructions of surface temperature fluctuations over the last millennium have identified the 20th century as uniquely warm. Boulouf Lugo et al.Β monitor timings of wood formation in black spruce...