Climate change causing demise of lodgepole pine in western North America
Monday, February 28, 2011 - 13:30
in Earth & Climate
Lodgepole pine, a hardy tree species that can thrive in cold temperatures and plays a key role in many western ecosystems, is already shrinking in range as a result of climate change -- and may almost disappear from most of the Pacific Northwest by 2080, a new study concludes.