light-green aspen clones re-colonizing those spaces with shoot densities up to 30,000 per acre (Jones et al. 1985). Similar patterns often follow forest fires. Rarely will a fire burn hot enough ...

Pando is an ancient quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides ... that what looks to the untrained eye like a forest is actually one giant clone, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

Some form what are called clonal groves: swaths of forest connected ... not be able to clone itself quickly enough to stay alive in the future. They've noticed that most of the aspen trunks ...