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Europe's ancient vegetation was a woodland-grassland mosaic, study finds

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European countries pay landowners to plant dense forests for carbon storage and biodiversity. A review of 23 million years of fossil pollen, charcoal, teeth and ancient DNA says that baseline is wrong. Before large herbivores declined, much of Europe was a mix of open woodland, meadow and grass.

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