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Trees Succumbing to Climate Change

Trees Succumbing to Climate Change

Posted 07 November 2009 | By Jeff Stephens | Categories: climate change | No Comments

Last month, the media reported extensively on the die-off of aspen trees in the West linked to climate change. Called sudden aspen decline or SAD, the phenomenon is characterized by the death of mature over story with an absence of subsequent regeneration. Open stands at lower elevations, with south to west aspects, are more vulnerable. [...]