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The Mullen fire looms near a property in Centennial last fall. Bryan Shuman, a professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, was a main co-author of a paper, titled “Rocky Mountain Subalpine ...

Freezing winds, intense snow, and short growing seasons shape them. Ice and snow kill the growing tips (the apical buds), and fierce winds distort branches, killing windward limbs and resulting in ...

BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4)- Extreme heat and dry summers are the main cause of tree deaths in Colorado's subalpine forests. That's according to research from the University of Colorado Boulder. Tree deaths ...

Scientists expect trees will advance upslope as global temperatures increase, shifting the tree line--the mountain zone where trees become smaller and eventually stop growing--to higher elevations.

D. Moore, J. Hu, W. Sacks, D. Schimel, R. Monson, Estimating transpiration and the sensitivity of carbon uptake to water availability in a subalpine forest using a simple ecosystem process model ...

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Even in the absence of bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire, trees in Colorado subalpine forests are dying at increasing rates from warmer and drier summer conditions, found recent University of ...

Even in the absence of bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire, trees in Colorado subalpine forests are dying at increasing rates from warmer and drier summer conditions, found recent research. Even in the ...