Glimpses of the future: Drought damage leads to widespread forest death

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Glimpses of the future: Drought damage leads to widespread forest death,
March 30, 2015,
Carnegie Institution,
Science Daily,

The 2000-2003 drought in the American southwest triggered a widespread die-off of forests around the region. A Carnegie-led team of scientists developed a new modeling tool to explain how and where trembling aspen forests died as a result of this drought. It is based on damage to the individual trees' ability to transport water under water-stressed conditions.