Parker uses diameter tape or 'd-tape' to measure the trees. The tape is calibrated to convert the tree's circumference, the measurement used to determine a tree's biomass. Photo: Kirsten Bauer.From Live Science:
Trees in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the last two centuries in response to Earth's warming climate, a new study finds.
For more than 20 years forest ecologist Geoffrey Parker, based at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center outside Washington, D.C., has tracked the growth of 55 stands of mixed hardwood forest plots in Maryland.
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