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\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a double whammy,\u201d said Todd Dawson, a plant ecophysiologist at the University of California Berkeley, who also didn\u2019t participate in the study. \u201cThey\u2019re running out of water<\/a> and also getting this heat stress,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re used to living in a very narrow temperature range of 8 to 27 degrees Celsius (about 46 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit). California, like everywhere, has been getting long periods of much warmer days than we\u2019ve ever experienced, and now the fog, which is normally kind of like an air conditioner, has also declined between 30 and 40 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

These temperature swings also impact the organisms<\/a> living high up in the trees. \u201cIf they experience really excessive heat throughout the summer,\u201d Ambrose said, \u201cthen the soil mats and ferns will probably dry out much faster. And then those salamanders and birds might not be able to live there. So we\u2019ll see cascading effects through the whole ecosystem at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Klinek said, the trees seem to be doing okay after the heat passes; while the leaves she and her team looked at over their two-year study didn\u2019t acclimate to the heat<\/a>, they also didn\u2019t lose their capacity to photosynthesize after the heat passed. While that\u2019s a bit of hopeful news, it doesn\u2019t reduce the urgency<\/a> of the need to better understand the impact of climate change on these trees, and to reduce the warming itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now the temperatures are coming back to normal in the fall and winter and letting the trees recover,\u201d Klinek said. \u201cBut in five or 10 years, if temperatures are even hotter and heat waves are even more frequent, we don\u2019t really know if there would be a recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, the salamanders and seabirds still have their homes high atop the coast redwoods. But we\u2019re a part of the redwoods\u2019 larger ecosystem<\/a> too, even if we don\u2019t live near them\u2014they, like all trees, are key to keeping our planet hospitable. The trees Klinek studied have the potential to live for more than a thousand years. The question is if we\u2019ll let them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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