Big trees are important to forest ecology for lots of reasons: as living trees, as “snags” or dead-standing trees, as dead wood on the forest floor, they are vital to forests’ function, their ecology, their biodiversity. But one thing that we don’t think about as much is the role that big trees play in creating canopy gaps. Canopy gaps are themselves important habitat features (foraging habitat for bats and birds, among other habitats) but are also important to creating the multi-generationality
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Big trees are important to forest ecology for lots of reasons: as living trees, as “snags” or dead-standing trees, as dead wood on the forest floor, they are vital to forests’ function, their ecology, their biodiversity. But one thing that we don’t think about as much is the role that big trees play in creating canopy gaps. Canopy gaps are themselves important habitat features (foraging habitat for bats and birds, among other habitats) but are also important to creating the multi-generationality
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