Ecologists are infecting trees with fungi to make them age prematurely

I’m in a forest 35 kilometres west of London, assembly somebody who’s making an attempt to make younger bushes previous. “Old trees form hugely important habitats,” says Lynne Boddy, a mycologist at Cardiff University, UK. “But in Europe in general, including in Britain, we don’t have all that many now.” She is considered one of a handful of scientists world wide making an attempt to do one thing about it.

Boddy takes me over to take a look at a gnarly oak, which is roughly 300 years previous. …