It puts that wood around the trunk, which grows wider, and into the limbs and the branches ... premise in forest ecology—that wood production decreases during the old age of a tree.

Trees falling down at the mercy of Mother Nature is actually part of a healthy forest ecosystem, according to an ...

In a delightful spectacle, the Mamdapur forest reserve area in Yeola taluka, located approximately 100 km from Nashik city, ...

their branches twisting starkly into the blue sky. Sarah Tharp, a wiry biologist for the U.S. Forest Service, hoists a small ax, takes aim and delivers an angled blow to an aspen trunk ...

Trees in nature follow a “self-similar” branching pattern called a fractal, in which the same structures repeat at smaller and smaller scales from the trunk to the branch tip. In the new study ...