"In a troubling new study just out in Nature Climate Change, a group of researchers says that a warming climate could trigger a “massive” dieoff of coniferous trees, such as junipers and piñon pines, in the U.S. southwest sometime this century."
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What Global Warming Means for Old, Tall Trees / May 20 2015
'The researchers found that the plants that were most likely to survive were short plants with smaller leaf area. Tall trees with large leaf area, on the other hand, were the most likely to die.
“Global warming is global, and all vascular plants obey Darcy’s law,” Nathan McDowell, co-author of the study, told ThinkProgress. “The implications of this is the whole world, anywhere there is plants.”'
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