Some Alnus trees retreated to Colchis in the last Ice Age before expanding their range in the warming climate. Did their symbiotic partners do the same?
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For years the tale of how the inhabitants of Easter Island depleted their soils and destroyed their ecosystem has been a cautionary tale for western civilisation. There’s just one problem with this as a historical warning – it seems that it never happened.