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Trees either hunker down or press on in drying and warming western US climate
2015-12-11 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In the face of adverse conditions, people might feel tempted by two radically different options -- hunker down and wait for conditions to improve, or press on and hope for the best. It would seem that trees employ similar options when the climate turns dry and hot. Two University of Washington researchers have uncovered details of the radically divergent strategies that two common tree species employ to cope with drought in southwestern Colorado. As they report in a new paper in the journal Global...
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