Climate change outpaces trees: Forests face centuries-long lag in adaptation
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Climate change outpaces trees: Forests face centuries-long lag in adaptation

Ecologists are concerned that forest ecosystems will not keep pace with a rapidly changing climate, failing to remain healthy and productive. Before the rapid climate change of the past century, tree populations in the Northern Hemisphere adapted to colder and warmer periods over thousands of years.