Warming climate mixed bag for forests
Lenny Bernstein. “Climate change affecting North American forests, researchers find.” Washington Post 14 Oct 2013 (A3 of the 15 Oct print edition under the headline “Study says warming is affecting forests: for North America, a mixed bag”).
Climate change is making North American forests more vulnerable to insects and disease but is helping some trees grow faster and increase their resistance to pests, a team of researchers from Dartmouth College said Monday.Researchers reviewed almost 500 scientific studies dating back to the 1950s to produce what they called the most comprehensive review of the affect of climate change on the forests that cover about one-third of North America. The effort was undertaken as part of the National Climate Assessment in 2012…read the article
Aaron S. Weed, Matthew P. Ayres, and Jeffrey Hicke. Ecological Monographs (preprint 11 Feb 2013).