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Climate Change to Cripple Southwestern Forests

By Guest PostOctober 1, 2012Environmentclimate change, climate records, future climate trends, model projections, southwestern forests, tree ring record

Trees Face Rising Drought Stress and Mortality as Climate Warms

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Combine the tree-ring growth record with historical information, climate records, and computer-model projections of future climate trends, and you get a grim picture for the future of trees in the southwestern United States. That’s the word from a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Arizona, and other partner organizations. (more…)

NASA: Climate Change May Bring Big Ecosystem Changes

By Guest PostDecember 15, 2011Environmentclimate change, climate model projections, ecosystem changes, melting glaciers, model projections

PASADENA, Calif. – By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth’s land surface and will drive the conversion of nearly 40 percent of land-based ecosystems from one major ecological community type – such as forest, grassland or tundra – toward another, according to a new NASA and university computer modeling study. (more…)

Global Tropical Forests Threatened by 2100

By Guest PostAugust 6, 20101 commentEnvironmentclimate change projections, forest ecosystems, model projections, tropical drought, tropical forests

Palo Alto, CA — By 2100 only 18% to 45% of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today, according to a new study led by Greg Asner at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology. (more…)

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Climate Change to Cripple Southwestern Forests

NASA: Climate Change May Bring Big Ecosystem Changes

Global Tropical Forests Threatened by 2100