Old Juniper Troll stand - The oldest shrub population from Scandinavia

Abstract

Recent nature conservation and climate change mitigation initiatives increasingly focus on research and protection of ancient woodlands and primary forests, as ecologists better understand and recognise their multiple and unique environmental benefits (Pimm et al. 2018;Di Marco et al. 2019), including their key role as carbon sinks (Luyssaert et al. 2008;Keith et al. 2022). Ecosystems with the presence of old individuals promote -among other ecosystem services -further carbon storage because of their