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The trees are rotting from the inside. That's a complex issue and doesn't sound like it's from warming. Old live oaks can suffer a similar fate, and the issue i
by debacle 5y ago
The trees are rotting from the inside. That's a complex issue and doesn't sound like it's from warming. Old live oaks can suffer a similar fate, and the issue is usually caused by stress on the tree impacting the tree's immune system.
Trees are really good at managing stress from heat, however stress from moisture much less so.
- blondie9x 5y agoYou're wrong. They rot from the inside as they die. The soil moisture is falling and the trees can't store enough water. The insides die first. Stress comes from climate change. Imagine in extreme conditions with high variance in water availability or temperature shifts how an organism will survive. This is part of the larger Holocene extinction humans are causing now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction