How a drought affects trees depends on what's been holding them back
Droughts can be good for trees; certain trees, that is.
Plants & Animals
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News tagged with tree-ring data
Tree ring width predicted by machine learning
Tree rings are record books of annual growth, and the width of each ring is correlated to that year's environmental conditions. In a new study, Cameron Lee and Matthew Dannenberg use machine learning to demonstrate that ring ...
Ecology
Mar 29, 2023
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Was Earth already heating up, or did global warming reverse a long-term cooling trend?
Over the past century, the Earth's average temperature has swiftly increased by about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit). The evidence is hard to dispute. It comes from thermometers and other sensors around the world.
Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2023
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Future forests will have smaller trees and soak up less carbon, study suggests
There is no crystal ball to tell ecologists how forests of the future will respond to the changing climate, but a University of Arizona-led team of researchers may have created the next best thing.
Ecology
Jan 27, 2022
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Scientists decode 450 years of boom and crisis in Europe from ages of building timber
Tracking building activity across the years, estimated from felling year of timber from historical buildings, can yield an unrivaled economic record for premodern Europe. That is the conclusion from a vast study by a consortium ...
Ecology
Jan 26, 2022
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Irreversible hotter and drier climate over inner East Asia
Mongolia's semi-arid plateau may soon become as barren as parts of the American Southwest due to a "vicious cycle" of heatwaves—that exacerbates soil drying, and ultimately produces more heatwaves—according to an international ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2020
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Global database for water-use efficiency
By examining the carbon isotope composition of tree-rings, researchers from Swinburne and the University of California, Davis have compiled the first comprehensive global database for water-use efficiency.
Environment
Apr 28, 2020
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One of Europe's worst famines likely caused by devastating floods
Europe's Great Famine of 1315–1317 is considered one of the worst population collapses in the continent's history. Historical records tell of unrelenting rain accompanied by mass crop failure, skyrocketing food prices, ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 13, 2019
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Food may have been scarce in Chaco Canyon
Chaco Canyon, a site that was once central to the lives of pre-colonial peoples called Anasazi, may not have been able to produce enough food to sustain thousands of residents, according to new research. The results could ...
Archaeology
Jul 10, 2019
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Human history through tree rings: Trees in Amazonia reveal pre-colonial human disturbance
In a new paper published in PLOS ONE, an international team of scientists reports the combined use of dendrochronology and historical survey to investigate the effects of societal and demographic changes on forest disturbances ...
Archaeology
Apr 3, 2019
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