Saturday 12 September 2015

Reviving extinct Mediterranean forests

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Reviving extinct Mediterranean forests
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 09, 2015 - The Mediterranean has cradled humanity and our cities, farms, domesticated animals, and logging habits for many thousands of years. During the last 5 to 8 millennia, as people developed farming and settled in cities, the landscape has gradually changed from a thick canopy of trees to open grass and shrubs. The ghosts of Sicily's extinct evergreen forests of holm oak (Quercus ilex) and oliv ... more


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