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UK forests still feeling the impacts of 1976 drought


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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

    The sizzling summer of 1976 caused permanent changes to British forests, new research suggests.

     

    Scientists found that the long dry spell that year - the UK's most intense drought between 1914 and 2006 - killed off many drought-sensitive beech trees.

     

    Growth of the trees is still restricted more than 30 years later, a study in the journal Functional Ecology said.

     

     

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23419036

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