For some years now, there have been episodes of sudden and widespread tree death in forests around the world. In many cases, climate change and droughts play an important role, but they are not the only cause, as they are combined with the history of human exploitation and the proliferation of pests and increasingly destructive fires.

In this book, Professor Francisco Lloret travels through some of the most important forests of North America, Patagonia, Europe and Africa to show us, with luminous clarity and rigor, the processes that are causing their collapse. A phenomenon that gives us the opportunity to learn more about the functioning of forests, their complex internal dynamics, their growth patterns, their distribution around the world, their role in biodiversity and the transformations they undergo, whether naturally or as a result of human activity.

The death of forests is an exciting and innovative read, which helps us understand the raison d’être of forests and the rationale we need to conserve them.