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Side effects of wide scale forestation could reduce carbon removal benefits by 1/3

This map of red oak seed sources provides an example of a major threat to an important effort against climate change: major government and private funding is being invested in planting trees as a powerful tool to fight local and global warming. But new research in the journal Bioscience, from which this map is adapted, shows a troubling bottleneck that could threaten these efforts: U.S. tree nurseries don’t grow close to enough trees—nor have the species diversity needed—to meet ambitious planting goals.

Plans to plant billions of trees threatened by massive undersupply of seedlings

Researchers from Brazil showed that Amazonian dark earth (ADE), soils enriched by Amerindian people thousands of years ago, increases the establishment and growth of seedlings of tree species important for reforestation. By copying the composition of ADE, especially its microbes, reforestation in Brazil and elsewhere could be sped up

Secret Weapon for Reforestation Found in Amazonian Soil

A coati (Nasua narica) forages on palm fruits in a secondary forest, Panama. Credit: Christian Ziegler, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.

New Study Finds Animals Play Key Role in Restoring Forests

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