That’s exactly what a team of ecologists at Stellenbosch University did to try to understand and predict the response of the quiver tree to ongoing and future climate change. The researchers ...

The quiver tree is now red-listed in a report released by the Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) during last month's climate summit in Copenhagen. The report red-listed ...

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species identifies quiver trees as vulnerable or decreasing, as they have suffered from large-scale mortality due to climate change in the past two decades.

The scientists behind that study revealed that the population of quiver trees at the trailing edge of their distribution, where critical climate limits had likely been exceeded, were declining ...

Climate change, for instance ... by representatives of the 147 IPBES’s member countries. A forest of quiver trees in Namibia’s biodiverse southern region. Edwin Remsburg / VS Pics via Getty ...

Foden, who studies climate change impacts on biodiversity loss, has also been monitoring another species of quiver tree, Aloidendron dichotomum, listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List ...

QUIVER TREE This striking giant aloe was given its ... Half are seabirds whose food supplies are diminished because of climate changes. The rest are terrestrial species, including several whose ...

Quiver trees look so otherworldly that director Stanley ... In death, these survivors of desert storms and climate change make very handy natural fridges, especially when wet.

For two decades, Foden, a specialist climate scientist at SANParks, South Africa’s national conservation authority, has been tracking the common quiver tree, Aloidendron dichotomum,a species ...

Monkey puzzle trees are often described as "living fossils" because they've changed so little compared to their ancestors. Quiver trees, as it turns out, are very sensitive to temperature changes.