A study of China's 2022 Yangtze River Basin heat disaster found natural forests withstood combined drought and temperature stress better than planted forests.
Why it mattersPlanted forests are common in carbon and restoration programs; evidence they handle extreme drought worse than natural ones raises questions about their reliability under climate stress.
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