California’s Tallest and Most Iconic Trees Are Getting Heatstroke
Source: Wired ·
Redwoods adapted to a cool, foggy climate. Now a new study shows they slow down photosynthesis when their environment warms.
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This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A grove of coast redwood trees is a forest of forests. Individual trees can live for thousands of years, and as they grow, their canopies develop mats of soils and ferns, creating something like a second forest floor hundreds of feet above the ground. These elevated ecosystems are home to creatures like the wandering salamander, which can spend its entire life cycle on top of a single tree, and the marbled murrelet, a seabird whose nesting habits were a mystery until one day in 1974 , when a tree-trimmer stumbled upon a nest 150 feet above the ground. Sometimes a stray seed—a sitka spruce or oak or even another redwood—finds its way up a massive redwood and grows into another tree entirely, nestled among the branches of a giant. For millennia, redwoods have been the anchors of this incredibly stable ecosystem; they can even survive wildfires that devastate other tree species. They’ve also been the…
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