TREES - Temperature found to be most significant driver of the world's tallest trees

Understanding forest biodiversity and how carbon dioxide is stored within trees is an important area of ecological research. The bigger the tree, the more carbon it stores and a study in New Phytologist explores global variance in tree height, identifying temperature as the most important factor behind the tallest species ...

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-temperature-significant-driver-world-tall