Summit County Citizens Voice: Colorado isn`t the only place that has seen major climate-related impacts to its forest ecosystems. During the past couple of decades, extensive forest death triggered by hot and dry climatic conditions has been documented on every continent except Antarctica and forest mortality due to drought and heat stress is expected to increase.
Most research to-date has been focused on local and regional impacts of forest mortality, but scientists are starting to grapple with the bigger picture of how widespread......
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Climate change and forests — the big picture
Posted by Summit County Citizens Voice: None Given on September 10th, 2012
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