Young aspens often don't survive because of factors such as grazing elk, according to a study by Northern Arizona University ...

These suckers are technically known as ramets and, if they survive without being browsed, they grow to become mature trees in their own right. In Scotland today, most aspen reproduction occurs by ...

Aspen is highly valued by beavers, who returned to the Cairngorms last year, 400 years after they were driven to extinction in Scotland. It is also an important defence against climate change, as it ...

However, Populus tremula, as aspen is known in scientific terms, is an important species in our native forests, albeit one that has perhaps suffered more from past deforestation than our other trees.

The new sprout is a clone of the original tree, and many cloned aspen trees can grow from the same root system. Aspen clones are some of the largest organisms on the planet. A single aspen ...