Ancient trees, which are hundreds or thousands of years old, play an important part in biodiversity and ecosystem preservation by giving stability, strength, and protection to vulnerable areas. A team of ecologists underlines the necessity of preserving these ancient organisms in a new review.
On a breezeless, sunbaked beach in Borneo, one of the biggest challenges paleobotanist Peter Wilf faced in his team’s hunt for plant fossils was getting used to a new set of tools. The damp soil they were probing for ancient plant detritus had never fully formed into stone, so it crumbled with all but the […]
Rare ancient trees help to sustain the trees around them by passing down experience in dealing with change, according to a study by The Morton Arboretum s Center for Tree Science in Illinois.