The hotter it gets, the more forests act as insulators
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - 07:50
in Earth & Climate
Using data from about 100 sites worldwide, an international research team has demonstrated that forest cover acts as a global thermal insulator by cooling the understory when the air temperature is high. This buffer effect is well known, but this study is the first that has evaluated this worldwide in temperate, boreal and tropical forests.