An experiment tests how hole from tree-killing beetle when wood burns affect carbon emissions
Shudong zhang et al. 2025
Beetle attacks on dead wood can promote the amount of carbon released during wildfires.
“Beatles make a difference,” says Swan Carnellisen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in Netherlands.
Researchers already knew that, by killing trees, insect infections in the forests could change the risk of forest fire. Many species of beetle and other insects also eat trees below on the floor of the forest, leaving the track and holes …
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