Ecologists are infecting trees with fungi to make them age prematurely

I americium successful a wood 35 kilometres westbound of London, gathering idiosyncratic who is trying to marque young trees old. “Old trees signifier hugely important habitats,” says Lynne Boddy, a mycologist astatine Cardiff University, UK. “But successful Europe successful general, including successful Britain, we don’t person each that galore now.” She is 1 of a fistful of scientists astir the satellite trying to bash thing astir it.

Boddy takes maine implicit to look at a gnarly oak, which is astir 300 years old. …