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Large-scale ecological disturbances are expected to alter climate by disrupting ecosystem function, but the climatic perturbation can be hard to detect. An analysis of forests in British Columbia reveals a warmer, drier summer following pine-beetle tree kill.

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Figure 1: Effects of mountain pine beetle kill on summer-time surface energy budget.

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Bonan, G. Canadian climate aberration. Nature Geosci 6, 21–22 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1691

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