More waste caused by PlayStation® Climatology: “European forestry scientists have begun a multi-national field trial to identify trees that will thrive as predicted climate change develops.”
Thousands of trees are being planted in test plots from Portugal in the south to Scotland in the north.
The trees will be measured and monitored as they grow in the diverse environments.
The results are likely to have a marked impact on which species of trees are planted in the coming decades.
In Wales, a cleared area of the Crychan Forest about the size of five football pitches is being planted in a carefully mapped grid system.
The saplings going into the ground have been imported from the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe, California and beyond.
Scientists here – and across Europe – know that climate change is likely to have a big impact on how well trees survive and thrive in the future, and how resistant they may be to a new wave of disease which the predicted warmer conditions may bring.
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