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[WI]Nevergreens? State's signature trees could be lost to climate change
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| Last Edited | Penguin Dec 29, 2006 04:02pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Madison Capital Times |
| News Date | Friday, December 29, 2006 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Wisconsin without evergreen trees?
It could happen during the next 100 years because of global warming.
"We have worked on forest change modeling that uses climate input from global climate models that predict changes of climate in the future," said David Mladenoff, a professor of forest ecology at the UW-Madison.
"If even a middle-level warming happens over the next century or so, we will see a reduction in the southern limit of current trees. They will be pushed further north."
Species such as the balsam fir, white spruce, white birch and perhaps the red pine are likely to be lost from the state, he predicted. |
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