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Tree Facts: Interesting facts about trees, including the world's tallest trees
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"List of superlative trees" |
The "List of superlative trees" on Wikipedia provides a list of trees categorized by their rank, species, height, class, and location and includes their individual names, if applicable. Other classifications include ranking by largeness, stoutness, broadness, and age. |
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"The Tallest Trees in the World" |
"The Tallest Trees in the World" by Sam Coppard, published on July 17, 2019 on Candide. This article includes descriptions of the world's tallest trees and an infographic comparing their relative heights to one another and to the Atlantis Space Shuttle and Big Ben. Trees that make the list include Hyperion, Centurion, and General Sherman. |
Tree News: Trees and forests in the news
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"The Amazon's tallest tree just got 50% taller -- and scientists don't know how" |
"The Amazon's tallest tree just got 50% taller -- and scientists don't know how" article by Tobias Jackson and Sami Rifai published September 11, 2019 on The Conversation. Researchers have now discovered the tallest tree in the rainforest at 88m tall, which "dwarfs the previous record holders by almost 30m". |
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"Earth has more trees now than 35 years ago" |
"Earth has more trees now than 35 years ago" by Rhett A. Butler on August 15, 2018, Mongabay news. Research has found that "tree cover has increased globally over the past 35 years", however, "all the tree cover data comes with an important caveat: tree cover is not necessarily forest cover." The study was led by Xiao-Peng Song and Matthew Hansen of the University of Maryland and is based on analysis of satellite data from 1982 to 2016. Mongabay is a non-profit conservation news service. |
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"Scientists reveal yet another reason fig trees are titans of biodiversity" |
"Scientists reveal yet another reason fig trees are titans of biodiversity" by Mike Shanahan, published on July 6, 2018 on Mongabay news. Biologist David Mackay studies the bird species visiting fig trees in Australia and discovered unexpectedly that insect-eaters outnumbered the fruit-eaters two-to-one. "Altogether, Mackay recorded 55 bird species visiting Ficus rubiginosa fig trees to feed on insects." Fig trees nourish birds and wildlife with their fig fruits, and what is crucial to this is the relationship that the fig trees have with pollinator wasps: wasps pollinate the tree's flowers and can only breed and lay eggs in these specific figs. "Mackay's study is the first to show that fig-wasps emerging from figs before they ripen are also valuable year-round resources for a diverse variety of insect-eating birds" (Shanahan). |
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"The Tallest Tree In The World" |
"The Tallest Tree In The World", article published on April 14, 2019 by Aaditi P. on Youngzine. Malaysian climber and arborist Unding Jami climbed one of the world's tallest standing trees on January 6, 2019 in a grove of yellow meranti trees on the island of Borneo. |
