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Trouble in Paradise: Fatal Blight Threatens A Key Hawaiian Tree
2016-04-25 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Threatens Key Hawaiian Tree The ?ohi?a is Hawaiis iconic tree, a keystone species that maintains healthy watersheds and provides habitat for numerous endangered birds. But a virulent fungal disease, possibly related to a warmer, drier climate, is now felling the islands cherished 'ohi'a forests. Hawaiis isolation, 2,390 miles from the North American mainland, has given the island chain a unique array of species found nowhere else, including the ?ohi?a lehua, an evergreen in the myrtle family...
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