The treeline: the last forest and the future of life on earth

Prologue. Taxus baccata, yew (Wales)

The zombie forest. Pinus sylvestris, Scots pine (Scotland)

Chasing reindeer. Betula pubescens, downy birch (Norway)

The sleeping bear. Larix gmelinii, Dahurian larch (Russia)

The frontier. Picea glauca/Picea mariana, white spruce/black spruce (Alaska)

The forest in the sea. Populus balsamifera, balsam poplar (Canada)

Last tango with ice. Sorbus groenlandica, Greenland mountain ash (Greenland)

Epilogue. Thinking like a forest

Glossary of trees.