Sentences with phrase «including insect outbreaks»

A number of factors, including insect outbreaks and late frost damage, are known to affect sugar maple.

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The forests in the Coweeta Basin reflect the disturbance history of the region, which in addition to climate change has experienced early 20th century logging, drought, hurricanes, and insect and disease outbreaks, these last including the extirpation of the American chestnut, once the most important species in southern Appalachian forests.

Because of its cold - adapted features and rapid warming, climate change impacts on Alaska are already pronounced, including earlier spring snowmelt, reduced sea ice, widespread glacier retreat, warmer permafrost, drier landscapes, and more extensive insect outbreaks and wildfire, as described below.