drought – ArborCarbon https://arborcarbon.com.au ArborCarbon are experts in sustainable vegetation management solutions and urban forest monitoring Sat, 26 Oct 2019 02:57:46 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.1 The future of agriculture – The Economist the-future-of-agriculture-the-economist/ Sun, 10 Jul 2016 13:29:23 +0000 http://arborcarbon.com.au/blog/?p=1071 Excellent piece in The Economist‘s Technology Quarterly (09/08/16),  The Future of Agriculture.

 

 

Soil conductivity -Economist

]]> Climate change could put eucalypts at risk of death from air bubbles climate-change-could-put-eucalypts-at-risk-of-death-from-air-bubbles/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 07:59:50 +0000 http://arborcarbon.com.au/blog/?p=774 “Extreme droughts could lead to widespread death of eucalypts from embolisms, researchers say.

ArborCarbon scientists have co-authored publications that have investigated the link between bioclimate events like drought to the decline of eucalypt forests in Western Australi.

Key points

  • Some trees can shrink the width of their water transport vessels in response to lack of water
  • Eucalypts are not able to do this which puts them at risk of developing air bubbles in their vessels
  • This would make them vulnerable to extreme heatwaves and drought due to climate change”

Read the Article on ABC Science

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