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Pests and diseases

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Trees support a wide variety of other organisms, ranging from bacteria and viruses to birds and insects. Although these may affect individual trees in terms of health and lifespan, they rarely pose a threat to entire woodlands, due to the natural system of checks and balances present in a woodland ecosystem. Individual trees within a...

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