How wind and ice sculpt the White Mountains' smallest forest

Freezing winds, intense snow, and short growing seasons shape them. Ice and snow kill the growing tips (the apical buds), and fierce winds distort branches, killing windward limbs and resulting in ...
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Yes, forest trees die of old age. But the warming climate is killing them faster

Belinda Medlyn receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the NSW government, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Bush Heritage Australia, Arid Recovery, Australian Forest and Wood ...
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Trees ‘remember’ wetter times − never having known abundant rain could buffer today’s young forests against climate change

Alana Chin receives funding from Save the Redwoods League. Marcus Schaub receives funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape ...