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Index of Subjects Quoting David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>: > Sadly there is more to climate change than warmer temperatures and > the dangerous element to forest trees in this area will likely be > extreme variation of weather. > Even one seriously adverse year in 100 can make a mess of good > management and 2012 was not great in my North Alton woodlot, to take > one example that I happen to know well... * I'm rereading Hynes' 'Ecology of Running Waters,' and he makes just this point about floods - stream beds and their biota are strongly shaped by rare events of extreme high water. I was thinking just this about droughts this afternoon in our Manitoba Maple thicket, looking at the plants that had and hadn't been killed by the summer's drought. fred. ------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ South Nation Basin Art & Science Book http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------
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