Spare a thought for our planet's forests - they only started growing some 400 million years ago, and now we humans are wiping them out in just a few centuries.
In my feature from last year which is now in the open archives, I looked at a few studies that use current biodiversity data to shed light on the evolution of the global forest coverage:
The rise and fall of global forests
The composition of today’s forests contains important clues to their evolution and resilience to environmental change. The image shows Sequoia sempervirens (coast redwood), Great Otway National Park, Victoria (Oceania). (Photo: Steve Bittinger/flickr by CC BY 2.0.)
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