Girdling, or the removal of a strip of bark around a tree’s outer circumference, is often used to study carbon relations. De Schepper and Steppe adapt an existing tree model describing water and carbon transport in order to evaluate the mechanisms behind girdling responses in 3-year-old oak, Quercus robur. Induced changes in stem growth are [...]

These are links from our Scoop It page between October 20th and November 7th: The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth? Socotra island has been geographically isolated from mainland Africa for the last 6 or 7 million years. Like the Galapagos Islands, Socotra island is teeming with 700 extremely rare species of flora and fauna, a [...]