/ Mortality Content for UC Davis en /news/how-much-drought-can-forest-take <p>Why do some trees die in a drought and others don鈥檛? And how can we predict where trees are most likely to die in future droughts?</p> <p>Scientists from the University of California, Davis, and colleagues examined those questions in a <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12711/full">study published in the journal <em>Ecology Letters</em></a><em>. </em>&nbsp;</p> January 19, 2017 - 1:24pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/how-much-drought-can-forest-take /news/mass-oyster-die-san-francisco-related-atmospheric-rivers <p>Atmospheric rivers contributed to a mass die-off of wild Olympia oysters in north San Francisco Bay in 2011, according to a study led by UC Davis and the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.&nbsp;The study&nbsp;is the first to document biological impacts of atmospheric rivers, which are predicted to increase&nbsp;under future climate change.</p> December 13, 2016 - 1:00pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/mass-oyster-die-san-francisco-related-atmospheric-rivers