Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees
Page numbers in parentheses. Italics are my own questions of the text.
Chapter 20 Notes Chapter 21 Notes Chapter 22 Notes
Chapter 17 Notes Chapter 18 Notes Chapter 19 Notes
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 24: A Question of Character
• three oaks next to each other in a field (151)
• soil conditions the same
• but one turns color before the others
• others wait to turn colors – why?
• they are all registering the same temp, amount of light, and number of warm days
• but each tree decides differently
• climate change
• temps remaining higher for longer
• when neighbor tree dies
• some trees grow out new branches low on trunk
• beneficial at first
• but as lower branches die, gives fungi a way in to tree
rather than question of character – is there a gene that inhibits branch growth that these trees lack?
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