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The research team examines aspen forest soils to gain a picture of past disturbance patterns left in ancient small charcoal pieces. Credit: P.C. Rogers, Western Aspen Alliance/Utah State University.
“The Eurasian aspen, and aspen species globally, are home to vast populations of other dependent plants and animals,” said the study’s lead author, Antonin Kusbach, an applied ecologist at Mendel University in Brno, Czechia, also known as the Czech Republic, where the team’s research was conducted.
The scientists conducted a survey of more than four million forest locations using field measurements, remote sensing technology, and sophisticated analytical techniques to better understand historic and potential aspen habitat, termed the “realized niche,” across all of Czechia’s forest terrain, which are similar in make-up to forests throughout central Europe.
“It’s sometimes said that you could walk from coast to coast in North America and never leave the shade of an aspen tree,” Rogers said. “That might not be literally true, but it speaks to the flexibility and adaptability of these forests. Now, we are coming to better understand the great potential aspen have to thrive across Europe, as well.”
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