This recent paper by colleagues Szymon Czyżewski and @jcsvenning.bsky.social from @econovoau.bsky.social calls for nothing less than a paradigm shift in the way we should view European forests🌲🌳🌱 w 🐗🫎🐮 as some of the main (missing) players.
Hopefully it will resonate!
phys.org/news/2025-05...
Before Homo sapiens arrived, Europe's forests were not dense and dark but shaped by open and light-rich woodland landscapes. A new study from Aarhus University shows that most native forest plants are...