Temperature most significant driver of world's tallest trees

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 14:30 in Earth & Climate

Understanding forest biodiversity and how carbon dioxide is stored within trees is an important area of ecological research. The bigger the tree, the more carbon it stores and a study explores global variance in tree height, identifying temperature as the most important factor behind the tallest species.

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