Climate change is likely to drive tree species towards colder and wetter regions of their geographical distribution, a new study has shown.
Climate change is likely to drive tree species towards colder and wetter regions of their geographical distribution, a new study has shown.
The research, led by the University of Alcalá (UAH), in Spain, and including researchers at the University of Birmingham, draws together data from across Europe and North America to show that tree species in the Northern Hemisphere are starting to become denser in colder and wetter regions.
The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides the first quantitative evidence that climate change is driving this change in the numbers of trees of each species across temperate forests on a continental scale.
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