Increasingly severe disturbances weaken world's temperate forests

Increasingly severe disturbances weaken world's temperate forests,
August 29, 2015,
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station,
ScienceDaily.com,

Longer, more severe, and hotter droughts and a myriad of other threats, including diseases and more extensive and severe wildfires, are threatening to transform some of the world's temperate forests, a new study has found. Without informed management, some forests could convert to shrublands or grasslands within the coming decades.