- Author: Maggi Kelly
Published on: January 28, 2015
Reposted from the original at theconversation.com.
- Author: Jaime Adler
Published on: August 31, 2011
Re-posted from UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.
This image from a Nelder Plot at Blodgett Forest Research Station in the Sierra Nevada mountains is part of a study designed to find out how trees respond to different levels of competition for resources (light, water, and nutrients). The wagon-wheel pattern provides a space-efficient way to experimentally increase tree density as one gets closer to the center of the “spokes.”
The trees in the image are giant sequoia, a species that is particularly sensitive to competition. After only a few years, one can see from the image that trees near the...
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