Conservation insights from an enormous aspen clone: Q&A with ecologist Paul Rogers
2020-06-05 18:36
With its groves of pockmarked white bark and trembling green medallion leaves, Pando looks like any other aspen forest. But the approximately 47,000 stems that form its giant body share a single genome. Spanning more than 40 hectares (100 acres) in central Utah and weighing at least 5,800 tons, the famous aspen clone is thought […]
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