New study reveals unexpected relationship between climate warming and advancing treelines

Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 01:28 in Earth & Climate

A new study reveals that treelines are not responding to climate warming as expected. The research, the first global quantitative assessment of the relationship between climate warming and treeline advance, is published in Ecology Letters and tests the premise that treelines are globally advancing in response to climate warming since 1900.

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