Caption

Forest dieback in the Bergisches Land, on the A4 motorway, near Engelskirchen, over 70 percent of the spruce trees are diseased, damaged, mostly by the bark beetle, which was able to spread due to drought and heat, climate change, attempts are being made to adapt the forest to climate change by converting other tree species, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Date

Jun 20, 2020

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK24F70_300

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

120,7Mb (8,8Mb) / 26,5in x 17,7in / 7952 x 5304 (300dpi)

Keywords

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