When fungal infection comes to Pinus radiata, it can run through the bottom of the crown of the tree, removing its leaves. What effect does this defoliation have when it occurs? Mireia Gomez-Gallego and colleagues...
Although elastic similarity models and determinations of critical buckling height often consider density-specific stiffness to be constant, few studies have tested this assumption in plantation-grown trees.
Functional–structural tree models can be used not only for biomass and crown architecture modelling, but also for wood properties. Using L-system language, Fernández et al. develop a model based on plant allometry and...