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
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