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Jardin botanique de Montréal 
Centre for Forest Research

Dendrochronology

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Shortly after the year 2000, thousands of forest tent caterpillars devoured all the leaves of trembling aspen and white birch in Abitibi. If such an epidemic lasts for several years, the affected trees die.

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