A Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) in the Mojave Desert inundated by surface rain water runoff after a heavy rain storm. Vertical.

---

Joshua Tree - victim of climate change? A Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia) in the Mojave Desert is, ironically, inundated by surface rain water runoff after a heavy rain storm in Joshua Tree National Park, California. Several studies have been done on these centuries-old trees. In a current study, ecologists from the US Geological Survey linked climate change to population decline and are modeling the impacts of climate change on their survival, and the possibility that 90 percent will be wiped out of their current range (and out of the national park) in 60 to 90 years.

---

Size: 3571px × 5000px
Location: Joshua Tree National Park, Palm Springs, California, USA
Photo credit: © Andrew Haliburton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: brevifolia, california, change, climate, county, cover, decline, declining, desert, disappearing, event, flooded, geological, habitat, haliburton, ironic, ironical, irony, joshua, mojave, national, park, population, rain, rainfall, resiliency, riverside, runoff, species, storm, stormwater, surface, survey, threatened, tree, vertical, victim, vulnerable, warming, water, yucca