Old-Growth Forests With Complex Vegetation Layers Keep Local Climates Cool (6 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Old-Growth Forests With Complex Vegetation Layers Keep Local Climates Cool (6 of 6)

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Old-growth forest stand in the Andrews Forest. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 22, 2016, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.J.K. Frey at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., and colleagues was titled, "Spatial models reveal the microclimatic buffering capacity of old-growth forests."

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Matthew Betts

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