As Australia’s giant trees succumb to fire or drought, we’re racing to preserve their vital genetic data
- Written by Daniel Bar Ness, Research associate, University of Tasmania
Giant old trees are survivors. But their size and age do not protect them against everything. They face threats such as logging or intensifying drought and fire as the climate changes.
Tasmania has long been home to plants ancient and giant. One rare shrub, King’s lomatia (Lomatia tasmanica), has been cloning itself for at least 43,000...
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