Ecologists infect trees with fungi to make them age prematurely

In a forest 35 kilometers west of London I meet somebody making an attempt to age younger timber. “Older timber make essential habitats,” he says. Lynne Boddyis a mycologist at Cardiff College, UK. “However in Europe normally, together with the UK, there aren’t that many for the time being.” He is considered one of a handful of scientists around the globe making an attempt to do one thing about it.

Boddy takes me in to take care of a gnarled oak that’s roughly 300 years outdated. …