Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees

Page numbers in parentheses. Italics are my own questions of the text.

Chapter 14 Notes             Chapter 15 Notes         Chapter 16 Notes

Chapter 13 Notes             Chapter 12 Notes         Chapter 11 Notes

Chapter 10 Notes             Chapter 9 Notes           Chapter 8 Notes

Chapter 7 Notes               Chapter 6 Notes           Chapter 5 Notes

Chapters 3 & 4 Notes      Chapter 2 Notes      Foreword, Introductions, and Chapter 1 Notes

Chapter 17 – Woody Climate Control

Bamburg Germany (99)

• sandy, nutrient deficient soil

• forest specialists  thought only pines could flourish there

• beeches planted

• created alkaline humus

• stored water

• air becomes moist

• trees slow the wind

• grows above the pines

• FOREST CREATED ITS OWN IDEAL HABITAT! (100)

temperature differences between thinned conifers and naturally aged beech

• deciduous 50º < than coniferous

• due to biomass and shade

• more living and dead wood in the forest

• thicker layer of humus

• more water stored in total forest mass

• evaporation leads to cooling which in turn leads to evaporation

• intact forests sweat to cool (101)

• can see this in trees planted too close to houses

• tree sweats so profusely that algae and moss colonize the house

downpours

• deciduous trees open leaves of crown

• water runs down trunk

• foams up

• stored in soil