Amazon forests not changing fast enough to keep up with climate change: study

Mongabay
Dec 19, 2018, 1:41 pm233 pts
A dead tree on an Amazon forest plot in Brazil in 2015. A new study finds that climate change, particularly deepening drought, is outpacing Amazon basin vegetation’s ability to adapt. Image by Adriane Esquivel Muelbert / University of Leeds. Frequent droughts are changing the assortment of trees in Amazon…

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