With the climate changing, many species are marching towards cooler climes – but trees are being outpaced. Some ecologists say assisted movement is the answer
  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
    16·
    3 months ago

    Could moving invasive trees into areas northward help us continue to farm them after we devastated their native habitat?

    What is going to happen to the native plants we clearcut to make way for the invasive? Move them more north too?

    • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3 months ago

      In some cases, it’s local plants making a return after the invasive ones got killed by climate change. For example, pine trees getting decimated by a pine borer bug all across Europe. In most of those places, they were planted in the 1950s to produce lumber which in turn was used to rebuild all of those destroyed European cities.

    • subignition@piefed.social
      3·
      3 months ago

      I’m fairly sure the climate changes described in the article are going to happen regardless of whether we cut down emissions in the immediate future.

      This proposal doesn’t seem like it’s to “buy more time”, but rather to react to warming that’s already happened.

  • PierreKanazawa@fedia.io
    2·
    3 months ago

    I think it may only work partially, for climate change is not simply the world getting hotter, and the geographic conditions may not suffice.