Increasingly severe disturbances weaken world's temperate forests

Saturday, August 29, 2015 - 16:30 in Biology & Nature

Longer, more severe, and hotter droughts and a myriad of other threats, including diseases and more extensive and severe wildfires, are threatening to transform some of the world's temperate forests, a new study has found. Without informed management, some forests could convert to shrublands or grasslands within the coming decades.

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