Aspen is a keystone species that unfortunately has become quite rare in the UK. In this video we explore why this is the case and what we might be doing to help improve the situation.
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⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
0:00 Intro
0:51 The Aspen
5:19 Our project and plans for the future
😅 CORRECTIONS
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– There is another native poplar in Scotland, the Black Poplar (Populus nigra).
– We’ve been informed there is another species which supports more species than the Aspen. The Pedunculate oak or English oak (Quercus robur). Which incidentally, we also plant of course 🙂
🔎 ABOUT THIS PROJECT
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Eurasian aspen (Populus tremula) is a keystone species that is largely missing from Scottish woodlands today. In Europe, its often found alongside birch, rowan, willow, and alder in the broadleaf component of northern coniferous forests. Together, they can occupy around 15-20% of the forest. In Scotland, aspen mostly exists as small, isolated fragments often consisting of single relict trees. To restore the natural diversity of the native pinewoods and return aspen to the landscape, we are embarking on a long-term project to plant and support the natural regeneration of aspen trees in Scotland.
Thank you to you all, for making our work possible!
– The team at Mossy Earth
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Creating an aspen tree nursery is a great idea and certainly one that I would support 😊
In America they found wolves were necessary for Aspen trees to flourish as they kept elk in check. How will Aspen fare in Scotland where there are no predator species to do a similar job?
Keep up the great work buddy its nice too see others so interested in nature
How can i sign up as a volunteer to contribute to your efforts?
Aspen is a poplar species 😂
So did these areas originally have aspen or other trees at one time? And if they did what happened to them?
Make videos showcasing the actual progress of the projects you undertake. Place a GoPro on a person's head and tell them to walk around where you do your work so we can all see it for what it is, an actually hard and time consuming effort that will pay off only with time.
If people would see the progress, even if little by little, more would be willing to join and donate
This is fantastic. Biological diversity is the cornerstone of life and abundance that a piece of land can sustain. That includes farming practices. Indigenous forests are part of that ecosystem and the whole foodweb that it creates. Nature has a way of "creating life" by itself, given the oppertunity.
If every country value their flora and cover their land with diverse indigenous species "global warming" nonsense would not be an argument. Your FARMERS are your true heroes – take their hands in creating life and natural abundance in your country…. and the parasitic politicians should be shown the middle finger!
I do hope you have a good deer management policy, in my experience in South West Scotland the deer population destroyed every new tree planted, we as the human race, demand produce out of season, this interns, farmers to produce food products all year round, which interns, animals such as roe deer who normally only give birth when They reach a certain body weight due to food source, to overbreed, due to an abundance of food all year round. you providing another source of food for native species only fuels the fire, I think you are just milking the grant system to fund your own lifestyle,, you do not have to deal with the concequences of your actions, please think long and hard about the concequences of your actions as the long term affect will punish generations to come
Wish they grew more trees on the dull barron hills here in Wales. Too much felling and not enough replanting.
Before planting the Aspens you should have the ground Geophysics done.
Re-wildering European Grey Wolf's 🐺 in Scotland.
Maybe develop a tree nursery in each country you plant, ie focusing on native species. Or, instead of one nursery, collectively promote everyone who watches to sew seeds and grow at min 100 natives in their backyard, and coordinate with you when trees are mature enough to plant out.
I am a bit perplexed. Aspen here in Utah grow and spread beneath the surface of the ground. that's why the largest organism is indeed the aspen grove here. For best results, aspen are planted about 15 or more feet apart.. You point out that the aspens in Scotland are in stands and those in the same grove just might essentially be the same tree having common root systems. So, you need to explain the need for seeds. Are your aspen trees different in this way, but you hint they are not. More explanations are needed. I was actually thinking that you didn't need so many saplings due to the way they spread underground.
It seems like it would be most efficient to raise funding to build capacity for Trees for Life, since they already have the basic infrastructure in place. Better to build a stronger partnership between the organizations, leaning on your respective strengths, and attract more leveraged funding that rewards collaborative efforts. The result would be a win-win-win – two organizations that have deeper capacity in their areas, a stronger partnership between them, and a greater chance of successfully achieving the stated goal of rebuilding Scottish aspen stands.
was their trees there before
why did they get rare there? because of humans deforesting?
we have to preserve white people. they could become a minority in scottland.
We have the black Poplar in the UK as well.
There is one final boss you will never overcome
Making Slough habitable
Why is the audio so quiet?