Natural forest regrowth helps curb invasive trees, study finds

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentResearchers from about sixty institutions analyzed fifteen hundred and sixty-one patches of regrowing tropical forest across ten countries, and the question before us is grave: who is allowed to grow there?

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's a tree study, Kenji. Published in Nature Plants, Phys.org reports, covering forests from Bolivia to Puerto Rico.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentNon-native trees, Vera. In some areas, species not listed as invasive made up over twenty-five percent of the trunks sampled.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOpen house, more like. Those trees peaked in the first ten to twenty years and then declined.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo they trended for two decades and then dropped off. I've watched that happen to a lot of people with a podcast.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWho did the dropping?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe canopy. As the shade increased, the numbers fell. Researcher Resende says the team noticed that the drop in diversity and tree numbers was significant.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRated: mildly important, a six. The forest handled it through a lighting policy, and I'd call that a very tasteful exit strategy.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo nobody was banned. They just stopped getting light. That's what a shadowban is, Vera, and the forest did it to the trees.