Siberia's boreal forests 'will not survive climate change' - environmentalresearchweb

Ningning Zhang and colleagues from Nagoya University, Japan, have predicted that the larch trees will not be able to survive even the most optimistic climate change scenario of a 4 °C increase in summer temperature in Siberia by the year 2100.

"We found that the larch-dominated boreal forest–permafrost coupled system in Siberia would be threatened by future warming of 2 °C or more," Zhang told environmentalresearchweb. "However, our simulations also show that, even with 4 °C warming, some tree species can still survive, but with considerable loss of biomass."