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Effective conservation of old-growth ecosystems will work best if it considers their varied ecology.
President Biden has called for protecting large, old trees from logging, but many of them could be cut while the regulatory process grinds forward.
Protecting old and mature trees is the simplest and least expensive way to pull carbon out of the atmosphere – but proposed logging projects threaten mature stands across the US.
We counted the number of standard trees in Australia. It turns out that since 1990, we’ve actually been gaining trees faster than losing them.
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Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
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Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
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Honorary Associate Professor, Forest Measurement and Management, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zurich
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Conservation Science Coordinator, University of Florida
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Professor of Sustainable Agrosystems, ETH Zurich
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Research Technician, ETH Zurich
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Research fellow, Australian National University