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World’s biggest plant shrinks as hungry deer move in

Wily herbivores have breached a fence intended to protect the 43-hectare ‘Pando’ aspen.
The Pando aspen clonal colony

The tree called the Pando aspen (green bands at hill’s base and midsection) has an estimated 47,000 trunks and weighs 59 million kilograms, but it is dwindling. Credit: Lance Oditt, Studio 47.60 North

A vast aspen grove that is renowned as one of the world’s biggest living organisms is shrinking as a result of human activity and browsing deer.

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Nature 562, 462 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07066-w

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