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ProgramCooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Alaska Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)
Funds research on how beetle-killed spruce forests in Alaska open the door to an invasive tree.
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Spruce beetle outbreaks have moved north into Alaska's boreal forests as the climate has warmed, killing large stands of spruce. Dead stands do not just sit empty — something moves in, and this notice funds finding out what.
The invader in question is European bird cherry, and the research traces a chain: beetle kill opens space, the bird cherry moves into it, and that changes whether native spru…
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