Eucalyptus regnans - which regularly reach 60 to 80m tall - lose about 9% of their trees for every degree of warming, research finds

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Victoria’s mountain ash forests are thinning rapidly as the globe heats up, and could lose a quarter of their “giant” trees that grow up to 80m tall in the coming decades, research has found.

Forests of Eucalyptus regnans - one of the tallest tree species in the world - lose about 9% of their trees for every degree of warming, according to a University of Melbourne-led study published in Nature Communications.

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Source: Guardian - World News