Climate change causing demise of lodgepole pine in western North America

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 14:00 in Earth & Climate

Lodgepole pine, a hardy tree species that can thrive in cold temperatures and plays a key role in many western ecosystems, is already shrinking in range as a result of climate change - and may almost disappear from most of the Pacific Northwest by 2080, a new study concludes...

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