Glacier National Park's ice fortress is crumbling. The giant trees of Sequoia National Park are ablaze. And even the tenacious cacti of Saguaro National Park are struggling to endure a decades-long drought. Since their creation, national parks have embodied the pioneering spirit of America in the...
Legend for acronyms: US(AL)—Alaska (US), US(CA)—Northern California (US), US(NY)—New York State (US), US(SE)—Sequoia National Park (US), US(GC)—Great Canyon (US), CR (Costa Rica), EC—Ecuador dry forest, EC(PO)—Podocarpus National Park (Ecuador wet), PE—Peru, Bo—...
1987. Fire history and age structure in red fir forests of Sequoia National Park, California. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 17(7): 582–587. Article Google Scholar Powell, D., and J. Klieforth. 2000. Weather and climate. Pages 70–93 in: G. Smith, editor. Sierra east: edge ...
One such incident was this year’s California wildfires in the Sequoia National Park and the surrounding Sequoia National Forest, which burnt an estimated 2,261 to 3,637 of the world’s largest trees. The wildfires, which have killed at least 10,000 sequoia trees in California over the...
Multi-year analysis of August imagery at Sequoia National Park to investigate dynamics associated with the 2012鈥 2016 drought reveals 5 tEMs corresponding to: steady growth, steady decline, early decline then regrowth, persistent vegetation, and no vegetation. Validation images are sparse, but where...
Advancing Meadow Restoration in Sequoia National Forest at Horse Meadow and Double Bunk Meadow Glass Mountain Meadows Restoration Planning Project Castle and Round Valley Meadows Restoration Planning Project Cannell and Redwood Meadow Restoration Planning Project ...
giant sequoiaA giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) estimated to be between 1,900 and 2,400 years old, Grizzly Giant is the oldest tree in the Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California. Plant life in the park changes markedly with elevation. Lower elevations are characterized by sca...
The blister rust pathosystem in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (SEKI) was uniquely positioned for detecting a nonlinear climate–disease relationship, as well as a climate change fingerprint on infectious diseases, for five reasons. First, isolating nonlinear relationships is facilitated by stro...
根据原文第四段Of course,today,climate change is speeding up,and trees can't keep pace.Take California:it's getting hotter and dryer and scientists estimate that before too long,Sequoia National Park may not be able to keep giant sequoias(巨杉).(当然,今天,气候变化正在加速,树木...