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Article: STUDY FINDS HEMLOCK TREES DYING RAPIDLY, AFFECTING FOREST CARBON CYCLE
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- July 5, 2009
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Otto, N.C., Feb. 26 -- NASA's Earth Observatory division issued the following media alert:
New research by U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and partners suggests the hemlock woolly adelgid is killing hemlock trees faster than expected in the southern Appalachians and rapidly altering the carbon cycle of these forests. SRS researchers and cooperators from the University of Georgia published the findings in the most recent issue of the journal Ecosystems.
"The study marks the first time that scientists have tracked the short-term effects hemlock woolly adelgid infestations are having on the forest carbon cycle," said Chelcy Ford, SRS ecologist and co-author of ...