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Climate change answers by studying dying trees
Understanding mechanisms of mortality will provide important input to future climate forecasts
The scientists’ goal is to provide basic insights into questions such as how plants die, especially during drought. While the question of plant mortality is easy to conceptualize, it is difficult to study because of the spatial and temporal variation of processes over the plant.
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