The Unique Challenges of Conserving Large Old Trees

David B. Lindenmayer; William F. Laurance

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2016.03.003

The Unique Challenges of Conserving Large Old Trees

David B. Lindenmayer^*, William F. Laurance

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Abstract

Large old trees play numerous critical ecological roles. They are susceptible to a plethora of interacting threats, in part because the attributes that confer a competitive advantage in intact ecosystems make them maladapted to rapidly changing, human-modified environments. Conserving large old trees will require surmounting a number of unresolved challenges.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	416-418
Number of pages	3
Journal	Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Volume	31
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.03.003
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2016

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