[MCN] Link to NSF: how drought kills trees

[Lance Olsen]

https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=242634 <https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=242634>


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“Serious thresholds are crossed when forests convert to vegetation types without trees 
and, as a result, lose valued forest ecosystem services. ”
 
Constance I. Millar and Nathan L. Stephenson. Temperate forest health in an era of 
emerging megadisturbance. Science  21 August 2015
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"… the race between climate dynamics and  climate policy will be a close one …."

Hans Joachim Schellenhuber. “Global warming: Stop worrying and start panicking?” 
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2008
 


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