Global Warming and Climate Change News

Trees starved in warming test
Friday May 30th 2008, 5:43 pm

Christoph Vogel, a University of Michigan forest ecologist, right, and Ohio State University grad student Brady Hardimann looks over an aspen tree that has been cut in Pellston, Mich., May 5, 2008. The "girdling," stripping a band of bark from around each tree,  prevents sugars produced by the leaves from traveling to the roots, causing trees to starve slowly without regenerating. Scientists are starving Michigan aspen trees in a global warming experiment to boost carbon absorption. Researchers hope that years from now the aspens they're removing will be replaced with a healthy mix of trees that should soak up more carbon dioxide from an ever warmer world.


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