Detecting forest fragility with satellites

Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 06:21 in Biology & Nature

In recent decades, forests in different parts of the world have suffered sudden massive tree mortality. Now an international team of scientists led by researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands has found a way to spot from satellite images which forests may be most likely to fall prey to such die-off events.

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