October 16, 2020
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UC Santa Barbara forest ecologist Anna Trugman—along with her colleagues at the University of Utah, Stanford University and the U.S. Forest Service—investigated the effects of repeated, extreme droughts on various types of forests across the globe. They found that a variety of factors can increase and decrease a forest's resilience to subsequent droughts. However, the study...concluded that successive droughts are generally increasingly detrimental to forests, even when each drought was no more extreme than the initial one.
