Document Type
Newsletter
Volume
2
Issue
1
Editor
Paul Rogers
Publisher
Western Aspen Alliance
Publication Date
2-2011
First Page
1
Last Page
3
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Abstract
Climate change and sudden aspen decline
Nicholas L. Crookston
Climate is the single most influential factor controlling the distribution of plant species. My co-authors and I explored the relationships between climate, observed locations of aspen, and what the future might hold for this species as climate changes. The paper is available at: http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/33823. A key finding is that 76% of the sites that recently exhibited sudden decline are projected to lie outside the 2060 location of aspen’s climate profile. Sudden decline, therefore, occurred mostly in areas where future climate estimates are inconsistent with current aspen ranges.
Recommended Citation
Western Aspen Alliance, "Tremblings, February 2011" (2011). Tremblings. Paper 8.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/tremblings/8