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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">Rolling Stone March 12,
2015</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande"><b>The Fate of Trees: How Climate
Change May Alter Forests Worldwide</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">By Jeff Tietz</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">McDowell predicts "massive
mortality." By 2100, he believes, rising temperatures could kill
more than 50 percent of the conifer forests in the Northern
Hemisphere. "I expect global-scale conifer loss," he says,
with "major mortality throughout the temperate and southern
boreal regions."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">But neither Williams nor any other
scientist I spoke with thinks the Earth will lose all of its
forests.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#000000">Undeniably, though,
tree casualties in the 21st century will be high. .... By
the second half of the 21st century, decades of percussive heat waves
will have segued into a permanent heat drought, and brushy flora will
have largely supplanted conifer forests.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"We
demonstrate that wildfire area burned (WFAB) in the American West was
controlled by climate during the 20th century
(1916-2003). .... Despite the possible
influence of fire suppression, exclusion, and fuel treatment, WFAB is
still substantially controlled by climate. "</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">Jeremy S. Littell
et al. Climate and wildfire area burned in western U.S. ecoprovinces,
1916-2003. Ecological Applications, 19(4), 2009, pp.
1003-1021</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"Tree
mortality in relatively undisturbed old-growth forests across the West
has risen even when not triggered by wildfires or insect
infestations."</font></div>
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"Drought and heat-induced tree mortality is accelerating in many
forest biomes as a consequence of a warming climate, resulting in a
threat to global forests unlike any in recorded history (1-12)."<br>
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" Š. we conclude with high certainty that
today's forests are going to be subject to continued increases in
mortality rates that will result in substantial reorganization of
their structure and carbon storage."<br>
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Nathan G. McDowell and Craig D. Allen. Darcy's law predicts widespread
forest mortality under climate warming.<br>
<i>Nature Climate Change.</i> Published online 18 MAY
2015</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">DOI:
10.1038/NCLIMATE2641</font><br>
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