Fungi: the missing link in tree planting schemes

By Aileen Baird, PhD Candidate in Fungal Ecology, University of Birmingham
Francis Pope, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Birmingham

To slow climate change and restore dwindling wildlife populations, the UK government aims to plant enough trees to expand the country’s woodland cover from 13% to 20% by 2050. Creating healthy woodlands on this scale is an enormous challenge, but forestry experts have developed guidance which, if followed, ought to give these new habitats the greatest chance of success.

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