(Reuters) - Scientists in Chile are studying the deaths of hundreds of the country's Araucaria, or "Monkey Puzzle," trees, which they believe may have been weakened by climate change and then killed off by disease.
Experts from the biotechnology faculty of forestry science at the southern University of Conception have ruled out disease being solely responsible for the widespread damage, which sees the massive trees die from the head down.
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