A tree's response to environmental changes: What can we expect over the next 100 years?
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 12:56
in Earth & Climate
The many environmental issues facing our society are prevalent in the media lately. Global warming, rainforest devastation, and endangered species have taken center stage. Our ecosystem is composed of a very delicate network of interactions among all species and the non-living environment. Predicting how each component of this complex system will respond to the many environmental changes sweeping the globe is a challenging problem today's scientists face.