Kew Gardens says it could lose half its trees due to climate change - BBC News
Kew Gardens says it could lose half its trees due to climate change - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk Kew Gardens says it could lose half its trees due to climate change
Scientists at Kew believe half its 11,000 tree species could be at risk by the end of the century.
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The entwives will leave
We have all of these species growing in California which is basically a hotter, drier version of the same climate. So while these species will be more stressed, I doubt they will completely disappear.
English oak and English holly do reasonably well here, though they usually need some irrigation. Silver birch and European beech are definitely more marginal and you may see higher mortality with those species.