Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe
Droughts pose an increasingly important threat to forests. Here the authors analyse a high-resolution Landsat-based dataset of forest canopy mortality in Europe over 1987–2016 to show that drought is already a major driver of tree mortality.
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2020-12-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19924-1 |