The trees' clever tactic to outwit potentially deadly predators was detected by scientists in Germany using satellite data.
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Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars
An infestation of caterpillars can make an oak tree postpone when it opens its leaves next year by three days, wrong-footing ...
Many insects, particularly caterpillars, hatch just when the trees' nutrient-rich leaves are still young and soft. This means ...
Scientists chasing thunderstorms in a retrofitted minivan finally captured something never seen before in nature: faint ...
News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as part of news coverage of this paper only. Relationships between tree diversity and species richness of herbivores (a) ...
Have you ever noticed that when you cut down a tree — or a tree dies suddenly — the dead leaves stay on the tree for a long time? The leaves go from green to brown, but stay on the dead tree branches.
Climate change is already making a small proportion of tropical tree leaves so hot that their photosynthetic machinery bakes and breaks, according to new research. Although only a small proportion of ...
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