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Researchers can now predict when drought will kill a forest

KUNC | By Emma VandenEinde
Published September 11, 2023 at 4:37 PM MDT
About 80% of the trees in this part of the Sierra Nevada forest died due to drought from 2012 to 2016. Jessie Au and her team at the University of California Davis have developed a new way to measure trees' decline amid drought and predict whether a forest can survive future droughts.
Jessie Au
About 80% of the trees in this part of the Sierra Nevada forest died due to drought from 2012 to 2016. Jessie Au and her team at the University of California Davis have developed a new way to measure trees' decline amid drought and predict whether a forest can survive future droughts.

Researchers have found a way to predict whether or not a forest will survive based on drought conditions – information that can help forest managers deal with climate change.

Researchers have found a way to predict whether or not a forest will survive based on drought conditions – information that can help forest managers deal with climate change.

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