"Species have always shifted their ranges in response to climate change... The problem for Great Britain, which it didn’t have immediately after the last Ice Age, is that it’s an island" Horribly good thread from #CharlieGardner on his paper with #JamesBullock #planetarycrisis #ecology
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Dr Charlie Gardner
Southern Britain will soon have the climate of southern Europe, but the plants and other species that make up our forests aren’t adapted to those conditions
So if we want forests in Britain in future, what are we going to do?
The answer requires upending decades of conservation convention
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So if we want forests in Britain in future, what are we going to do?
The answer requires upending decades of conservation convention
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'Revisiting the case for assisted colonisation under rapid climate change'
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.70027