forest dieback

The most severe temperate forest dieback was on white birch and yellow trees.

Temperature and drought are major contributing factors to forest dieback, so more trees will be dying in the future.

Forest dieback is one of the major threats to the park and some studies suggest that it is caused by a natural phenomenon.

One study conducted within the reserve has revealed that soil toxicity is a probable cause of forest dieback.

The first evidences for local forest dieback due to the fume of cottages arose in the 19th century.

The forest dieback has affected 22 species of plants with Calophyllum walkeri being the most affected.

Forest dieback refers to the phenomena of a stand of trees losing health and dying without an obvious culprit.

Forest dieback has many dynamic forms.

Without debating the causes of global climate change the effects of forest dieback can be viewed factually.

Over the following decades forest dieback, from parasites or acid rain, has cleared the peak of the mountain to the point where it is largely bare.

Armillaria luteobubalina, a fungus that causes forest dieback, has occurred in mixed eucalyptus stands following partial cutting.

A large grove of Sonneratia caseolaris is faced with forest dieback in the Menik River's estuary.

French le waldsterben (from German Waldsterben "forest dieback")

Some of these responses, including insect outbreaks, wildfire, and forest dieback, may adversely affect people as well as ecosystems and their plants and animals.

For a good 20 years new forms of forest damage have appeared in the High Steinwald that go under the name of Waldsterben or forest dieback.

Some climate models operating with interactive vegetation predict a large loss of Amazonian rainforest around 2050 due to drought, forest dieback and the subsequent release more carbon dioxide.

Widely distributed in southern Australia, the fungus is responsible for a disease known as Armillaria root rot, a primary cause of Eucalyptus tree death and forest dieback.

Scientists are worried that forest dieback in the Amazon rain forest and the Boreal evergreen forest will trigger a tipping point in the next 50 years.

Dreher countered the rise of the Green Party of Switzerland and particularly rebuked its claims about Forest dieback which he denounced as "lie of the century".

Making the community aware of climate change issues in the marine context is a challenge as the impacts are less visible in comparison to 'dry dams and rivers' and 'forest dieback'.

Diseases and pests can kill large groups of trees very easily, but the premature and progressive loss of clusters of trees without an obvious or specific cause is known as forest dieback.

In December 2009, he expressed concern about the credibility of climate scientists and compared Global Warming alarmism to the German Waldsterben (Forest dieback) hype of the 1980s:

Tropical forests are vulnerable to a warmer, drier climate, which may exacerbate global warming through a positive feedback that decreases evaporative cooling, releases CO2, and initiates forest dieback ..." Gordon B. Bonan.

In the early 1960s the first signs of forest dieback were seen in the Eastern Ore Mountains near Altenberg and Reitzenhain, after local damage to the forests had become apparent since the 19th century as a result of smelter smoke (Hüttenrauch).

Forest dieback has many symptoms: falling off of leaves and needles, discoloration of leaves and needles, thinning of the crowns of trees, dead stands of trees of a certain age, and changes in the roots of the trees.