Science News Online (1/9/99): References for "Old West has fastest tree border yet"

References & Sources - January 9, 1999

Old West has fastest tree border yet

Using old aerial photographs, researchers have documented the most rapid climate-caused shift on record for a forest border-a change of 2 kilometers in less than 5 years.

References:

Allen, C.D., and D.D. Breshears. 1998. Drought-induced shift of a forest-woodland ecotone: Rapid landscape response to climate variation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95(Dec. 8):14839.

Sources:

David D. Beshears
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Environmental Science Group
Mailstop Code J495
Los Alamos, NM 87545

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