Timeline for Why do trees grow closer together and lower near the tops of moutains?
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| Nov 7 at 15:42 | comment | added | have_beard_will_ski | Even there are few trees, with many trunks, the trunk density per square meter is high, and increases with altitude. So, a slightly modified version of the original question still stands | |
| Nov 6 at 14:52 | comment | added | fileunderwater | To me, it is unclear towhat extent the 5000ft picture is showing individual trees growing closer together or several small trunks or branches coming from one or a smaller number of trees. In Picea at high altitudes it is common to find them crawling close to the ground and/or with several apical tips (due to harsh environmental conditions). This does not invalidate the question, and the answer from @bob1 is a good starting point. My feeling is just that you might be misinterpreting the first picture a bit. | |
| Oct 19 at 21:41 | comment | added | have_beard_will_ski | Question is, how do conditions just below the treeline influence the spacing between trees? Logically one might imagine that trees get further apart just below the tree line, due to tough growing conditions, but the opposite is true empirically... | |
| Oct 18 at 20:38 | comment | added | John | look up the term "tree line" | |
| Oct 14 at 22:38 | answer | added | bob1 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 11 at 10:29 | comment | added | have_beard_will_ski | Are you saying taller trees are also wider, and therefore have to grow further apart, to avoid interfering with each other? Can you give other examples of environmental conditions (not altitude) which stunt trees and cause them to grow closer together? | |
| Oct 10 at 3:31 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | Is it not that the trees grow wider as they get taller? | |
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| S Oct 10 at 1:10 | history | asked | have_beard_will_ski | CC BY-SA 4.0 |