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Davey Bulletin November-December 2021

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13 November/December 2021 | THE DAVEY BULLETIN SOUTHEAST U.S. IMPACTS Extreme rain events are increasing in frequency, with more rain events occurring as heavy downpours. This is combined with stronger hurricanes making landfall more often, bringing with them associated flooding from larger, slower-moving storms and tidal storm surge intensified by sea-level rise. NORTHEAST U.S. IMPACTS With winters warming faster than summers and winter hardiness zones changing, some tree species will benefit at the expense of others. That means distribution of trees is changing as some species move further north. In central West Virginia, oak and hickory are predicted to increase in dominance, as sugar maple, beech, and gray birch decrease. In northern Maine, spruce-fir forests will transition to maple-beech-birch forests, which will be replaced by oak-hickory forests in New York. CANADA AND CLIMATE CHANGE The next phase of the Davey climate science project will be to develop similar climate change projections for Canada.

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