A young, spontaneously-seeded birchwood is growing on the earth’s largest active outwash plain, Skeiðarársandur, but it can play a fundamental role in ecological service.
Sjálfsáinn, ungur birkiskógur vex nú á einum virkasta jökulsandi jarðar, Skeiðarársandi, en slíkur uppvöxtur getur reynst verðmætur hvað vistþjónustu varðar.