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Trees Growing Significantly Faster in Warming Climate, Study Finds

2014-09-18 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: An analysis of data spanning 140 years from one of the world's oldest forest study sites indicates that trees have been growing significantly faster and stands have become larger since the 1960s. The study, published in Nature Communications, was based on 600,000 individual tree surveys conducted since 1870 at a central European forest study site. European beech and Norway spruce, the dominant tree species in the experimental plots, grew 77 and 32 percent faster, respectively, than they did 50 years...

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