Posted on 02/04/2022 9:14:13 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
A rare breed of ancient trees appears to be the key to life for forests all over the world. Researchers at The Morton Arboretum say in many forests which date back centuries, there are a small number of trees which provide genetic and evolutionary benefits to the rest of the environment. Moreover, this “tree of life” is usually 10 to 20 times older than the average plant species dwelling in that forest!
Study authors found that these ancient trees don’t follow a natural (and predictable) life cycle like other plants, trees, and even humans. They also only make up fewer than one percent of the trees in the environment.
Moreover, the team notes that once these trees are gone, they’re gone. Their environmental models show that it’s becoming increasingly hard for trees to reach the impressive ages of existing ancient trees. Simply put, there may be no way to replace an ancient tree that takes care of a forest once they die.
(Excerpt) Read more at studyfinds.org ...
I have an outpost on the east side of 53, due north of the first junction past the entrance, at the creek. Thanx.
Crap! Just when I was starting up my Forest clear cutting business too!
Is this a parody or fiction site???
I actually clicked this one.
WT actual F!??
There is no description of this tree, or what breed it is, or what it’s botanical name is.
Even worse, there is this ironic gem of seeming contradictions:
“...this breed of ancient tree has survived all sorts of environmental shifts throughout time...”
Yet...
“As the climate changes, it is likely that mortality rates in trees will increase...”
Of course!
heh
Made up nonsense about trees.
The tree huggers (commies) will use this to stop logging.
You can clear cut a forest and it grows back quickly with a “diverse” amount of plant life. My grandparents had a cabin 180 miles north of Minneapolis, Minnesota and the land next to them was clearcut back in the 1970’s. Prior you could not walk into as it was so dense. Just animal trails. Afterward I walked in the area on the roads made by the big machines and it was wide open and I thought it would take a long time to recover. The next summer you could not walk in due to the growth reaching over your head and the roads were covered over.
Nonsense.
What is this mystical strain of tree?
Oh, not a particular species but special members.
What makes this tree special among its kind that it has mystical powers?
Nothing.
Then why is this tree important if this tree is central to the survival of the forest?
Because its the “main switch” for the mycorrhizal network.
The article achieves something CNN, MSNBC, etc constantly strive for: a completely content-free communication. Reading this article expecting to learn something is like drinking tap water hoping to get nutrition from it
I believe this was the case with the Mt. Saint Helens volcanic eruption. All life would take dozens of years to re establish itself yet within ten years life had returned.
LOL..... HR Puffinstuff.
Was actually thinking about Ents.
Interesting story, but they never say exactly which rare breed of ancient trees it is? Do these trees belong to a specific species?
THEN, 1/3rd of the way down, it switches over to Climate Change (meaning human caused Global Warming)...
No thank you!
Methuselah was impressed. He wanted to make a walking stick from one of those trees.
BTW - isn’t this supposed discovery contrary to evolution?
Interesting story, but they never say exactly which rare breed of ancient trees it is? Do these trees belong to a specific species?
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There’s only two reason to omit specifics about the trees. I think it’s probably pretty obvious which one based on the lapse into the climate hand-wringing.
1) The species really exist, but they don’t want people seeking them out, or worse, trying to harvest them. They want them to be a secret. heh
2) The species doesn’t exist. It’s all a cute story they made up because most people see trees as a renewable resource, and there are responsible ways to harvest and replant, so they need a more special tree to scare people with losing.
I had no idea you and I live so close together.
There are quite a few of us around here.
There we go. See you picked the best one.
This claim is mainly bullfeathers. It all depends on the timescale. Some French researchers were looking at what they thought were untouched "old growth" forests in France. They then noticed some Mediterranean plant species growing there and talked to archaeologists about the area.
Turned out the whole place had been clear cut and put to agricultural use during the Roman Empire. By the ninth or tenth century it had reverted to "old growth."
sounds like the movie Avatar
Apparently all the oxygen it produces is a zero sum gain since it it consumed by all decaying forestation on the jungle floor.
I have advanced degrees in Horticulture and Botany, and have never heard of this species/cultivar...
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