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Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future

  • Written by John Parker, Senior Scientist in Community Ecology, Smithsonian Institution
Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the futureA long-running experiment is testing tree mixes to develop the healthiest forests.Mickey Pullen/Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. But if the past is prologue, many of those planted trees wo...

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