Tasmania’s tall eucalypt forests will be wiped out by heatwaves unless we step in to help them
- Written by: Tim Wardlaw, Research Associate, University of Tasmania
Nicolas RakotopareTasmania’s tall eucalypt forests are globally significant. They accumulate carbon faster than any other natural forest ecosystem in the world.
But climate change is making it harder for these forests to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in wood. During heatwaves, they stop removing carbon altogether and release...
