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Moving Green Mountains
Vermont forests march up hills in search of better climes


Photo: ©Daniel Horowitz/SIS/Getty Images

By Nick Atkinson
April (Vol. 9, No. 2)

Beckage, B. et al. 2008. A rapid upward shift of a forest ecotone during 40 years of warming in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(11):4197-4202.


The line marking the transition between Vermont’s northern hardwood and boreal trees has moved around 100 meters uphill in just 40 years, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.



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