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In southern Sweden the vast spruce forests are starting to die because of the spruce bark beetle. You can see it everywhere now. Supposedly due to warmer summe
by fifilura 1y ago
In southern Sweden the vast spruce forests are starting to die because of the spruce bark beetle. You can see it everywhere now.
Supposedly due to warmer summers.
And new planatation replace spruce by larch or leaf trees.
Luckily they don't seem to affect pine trees, but they have their own climate expectations.
- tuna74 1y agoIt is actually because of drier summers and monoculture. The more spruce there is the more they beetles there are.
- IAmBroom 1y agoSo, the percentage of the forest that are spruce has increased dramatically in recent years? Seems unlikely that they bothered planting their own forests.
- fifilura 1y agoYou are required to plant new trees when you cut them down. And there is probably truth in the comment about monoculture. Changes in forestry also moves very slow. The trees you cut down now were planted during WWII.
- azepoi 1y agoPine tree suffer from other parasites and notably sphaeropsis fungus