Climate is changing - and it’s affecting every season

We know a lot about what happens during the growing season; it’s when the most happens during a tree’s life, and you don’t have to do field work in three feet of snow. It’s during winter, though, that most trees experience cold temperature stressors. Snowpack often acts as an insulator, keeping the soil temperature from fluctuating as much as the air temperature and protecting tree roots from freezing. Climate change, though, means that there is less snow in a lot of temperate regions than there used to be. What does this mean for trees?

We’re working on a literature review to evaluate the impacts of snow loss on temperate trees that should be out in 2022 or 23.