Tree rings tell a story of water and climate change
By unlocking the secrets of tree rings, scientists have created a global database of trees’ water-use efficiency, which they hope will help improve rainfall predictions and management of the world’s water resources.
The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, reveals that trees are not acclimatising well to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations – a discovery that lead researcher Mark Adams, from the Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, says is “truly surprising”.
Published by Cosmos.
