Entire hillsides of trees turned brown this summer. Is it the start of ecosystem collapse?
- Written by Rachael Helene Nolan, Postdoctoral research fellow, Western Sydney University
Rachael Nolan, CC BY-NC
The drought in eastern Australia was a significant driver of this season’s unprecedented bushfires. But it also caused another, less well known environmental calamity this summer: entire hillsides of trees turned from green to brown.
We’ve observed extensive canopy dieback from southeast Queensland down to...