Size-focused conservation may fail to protect the world’s oldest trees

Old trees are irreplaceable natural resources that provide multifaceted benefits to humans. Current conservation strategies focus primarily on large-sized trees that were often considered old. However, some studies have demonstrated that small trees can be more than thousands of years old, suggestin...

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Published in:Current biology 2023-11, Vol.33 (21), p.4641-4649.e3
Main Authors: Mu, Yumei, Lindenmayer, David, Zheng, Shilu, Yang, Yongchuan, Wang, Deyi, Liu, Jiajia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ancient trees
cold
growth rings
large old trees
old trees
small old trees
species
tree rings
trees
variance
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