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#conifers

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Plants struggled for millions of years after the world's worst climate catastrophe
phys.org/news/2025-03-struggle

"#conifers were some of the earliest to colonize the land after the End-#Permian catastrophe. But the recovery of #forests was not smooth sailing... even higher temperatures during the Late Smithian Thermal Maximum caused the collapse of these survivors... they were replaced by tough, shrubby #plants resembling modern #clubmosses. This scorching period lasted for about 700,000 years"

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Britain's oldest tree, the #FortingallYew, is 'undergoing a sex change' independent.co.uk/news/uk/home (2015)

"#Perthshire’s Fortingall #Yew, estimated to be ~5,000 years old (older than #Stonehenge), is considered male as it produces pollen, as opposed to female yews which bear seed-holding berries. However... 3 ripe red berries were spotted on one of the ancient yew’s branches this year, suggesting at least part of the #tree had become female... many other #conifers have been observed to switch sex"

historical illustration of yew tree branches
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Bruce MacDonald

“You’ll see shoots of green coming off these black trunks throughout the park,” said Will Fourt, senior park and recreation specialist for the state park system’s Santa Cruz district. Despite early fears, most of park’s redwoods survived, Fourt said, noting that they can resprout not only from their base and branches but also from their trunks — something most conifers can’t do.
latimes.com/travel/story/2024-

Los Angeles Times · How to hike among redwoods at Big Basin Redwoods State ParkBy Christopher Reynolds
#trees#California#conifers
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CelloMom On Cars

"The immense blazes that roared through much of the country are, in part, due to a legacy of poor #ForestManagement. The #LoggingIndustry has long prized #conifers and has gradually reshaped the landscape with lucrative – but highly #combustible – trees. Decades of #FireSuppression, as well as a shift away from prescribed burns practiced by Indigenous communities, has left much of the forest floor littered with flammable deadfall."

theguardian.com/world/2023/sep

The Guardian · Wildfires turn Canada’s vast forests from carbon sink into super-emitterBy Leyland Cecco
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Daniele de Rigo

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news.harvard.edu/gazette/story, Loretta Mickley

"#ClimateChange affecting the succession of vegetation in an #ecosystem. [...] If you burn, for example, the #conifers in Sierra Nevada, you may not get conifers back. It’s too dry and too warm during certain times of the year.
That could be another source of #carbon into the #atmosphere. There is some concern that after the recent very large fires in the western U.S., [...] given the changing climate, we won’t see the same dense vegetation return"

Harvard GazetteWildfires are much worse than a sign of climate change, says expertBy Alvin Powell
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