If you let trees seed into a wild flower meadow, then it stops being a wild flower meadow. The same goes for heathland.
The trees that grow in boglands are very good at sucking large amounts of water out of the ground. Before you know it, the bog has dried out and filled with leaf litter.
There are several types of habitat in the UK that declined massively over the 20th century, with growing towns and mechanised farming. If we're not constantly managing things, trees will soon wipe out what's left.
If you let trees seed into a wild flower meadow, then it stops being a wild flower meadow. The same goes for heathland.
The trees that grow in boglands are very good at sucking large amounts of water out of the ground. Before you know it, the bog has dried out and filled with leaf litter.
There are several types of habitat in the UK that declined massively over the 20th century, with growing towns and mechanised farming. If we're not constantly managing things, trees will soon wipe out what's left.
