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The 75% decline compares tree-genus richness after the Miocene peak with the Holocene across a 66-million-year Cenozoic synthesis. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Cenozoic losses of tree diversity constrain climatic adaptation of Western and Central European forests · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:d9b3d657fc3f2f707d508a45d697098be937c9b9920dc1a6a54e69f609804770

Here, we compile a dataset of fossil occurrences of tree genera from Western and Central Europe to analyze tree diversity changes during the Cenozoic (66 Ma – present). We find that tree genus richness declined 75% after its peak in the Miocene (23 – 5.3 Ma).