Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees

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

Chapter 20 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 21 – Mothership of Biodiversity

dr martin gossner (131)

• bavarian national forest

• 600 year old tree

• oldest in the forest

• sprayed with insecticide pyrethum

• 2,041 animals (132)

• 257 different species

split trunk of tree

• rainwater collects at point of division

• home to tiny flies that are food for beetles

trunk cavities with water

• even though its dark with low oxygen species live there too

• bumblebee hover fly larvae

• have snorkels

• bacteria as food source

dead trunk (133)

• resource for children trees

• little trees don’t have direct access to the dead trunk

• need help from other organisms

• fungi and insects

stag beetles (133)

• adult only lives a few weeks

• can stay in larvae stage for 8 years

• eats its way through dead roots of deciduous trees

6,000 species depend on dead wood

• removing dead wood destroys habitat

• live wood is of no use to species that live in dead wood

spruce

• sprout particularly well in cradle of dead parent tree

• nurse log reproduction or cadaver rejuvenation