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Why Ecologists Are Haunted by the Rapid Growth of Ghost Forests | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
A study in North Carolina of dying trees may represent a foreboding preview of whatmay come to coastal ecosystems worldwide By Jim Morrison, smithsonianmag.com, May 17, 2021 For years, Emily Ury traversed North Carolina’s coastal roads, studying patches of skeletal trees slain by rising seas that scientists call “ghost forests.” Killed by intruding saltwater along…