No touchy

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• cynar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was curious and looked it up. Apparently it mostly happens between trees of the same species, with several causes.

  Most are mechanical. The tips brush against each other, and damage new balances and leaves. Both trees divert growth away from the area.

  Some also sense shading via red light. They focus growth away from shade. This means neither tree grows into the gap, since they are partially shading each other.

  It also helps limit the spread of leaf eating parasites. Again, particularly useful in a forest of the same species.

  So yes, the trees are social distancing, to avoid the spread of disease.

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was curious and looked it up.

    Lol I thought you said you looked up at the trees

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  • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So you’re saying the trees can accomplish what humanity never could.

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    • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Considering how little conflict we currently have, compared to our population size, we are doing extremely well. Unfortunately, the conflicts remaining are spectacular enough to counter that.

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    • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We did a good job down here, sounds like your country must’ve sucked at it.

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  • Haagel@lemmings.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Trees hella smart.

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  • knorke3@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    balances -> branches* :)

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  • And009@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think there’s also a corelation on how dense a forest can get because it affects the sunlight in ground too. If it gets too dark then life would rot underneath

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• setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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  • Chev@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Imagine a stranger holding your hand in public transport like this 😲😳

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    • FilterItOut@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, if they were stinky I’d probably be upset. If their hands were sticky, I’d be upset. Repeat for the other social offenses. Otherwise, sure, go for it. We all need a case of mistaken identity in our lives.

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• Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks like a voronoi noise texture.

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  • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It can probably be mathematically defined as such.

    I wonder how much different species affect the parameters.

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  • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It kinda is!

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  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It would be if the trees all were the same age and grew at the same rate.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  my sibling, putting their finger close but not on me: I’m not touching you!

  Me, who understands matter never touches because of electromagnetic forces putting my finger on my sibling: I’m not touching you!

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• ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  im so glad that we aren’t the only species that do hoverhands.

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• the_beber@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They‘re just like me fr

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• Phoenix3875@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Witness has rewired my brain to look for dot line patterns.

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is real? I read about it in a scifi (or rather solar punk) novel and thought it’s a metaphor or something

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  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It wasn’t as good as “Wild-Built.”

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True. I liked both but the first was better

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This shouldnt happen in nature should it? Just talking out of my ass here but i feel like this only happens because they are all the same height because they were planted by humans at the same time. Or maybe only in mono culture forests, because i have never seen this simply because there is always overlap from smaller or different trees where i have been.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not only should it happen in nature, but nature causes this behavior. They evolved that way because they survive better than a species that gets tangled up in itself. That’s it. That’s the whole reason, start to finish. There are a multitude of reasons why not getting tangled up in your neighbors is good, but the tree simply has to survive better, and that is all that is required for the behavior to become the new natural norm.

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    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Correct

      Natural selection happens at the genotype level, not the individual level. Having a species that likes to combat with other individuals with, essentially, the exact same genotype, at the expense of both individuals, is rarely a winning strategy.

      (There are exceptions and caveats of course -- e.g. Fisher's Principle which explains why the ratio of males to females is roughly 50:50 in most species, even though that's often not what would be optimal for the species as a whole).

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    • PilferJynx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Man, that’s some crazy logic. I’ll take occams razor and state that wind movement abrades the leaves/limbs on one another.

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    • Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And isn’t it advantageous to the whole forest if the mature trees are the same height? Doesn’t that happen naturally all over the place? Something about equal sunlight, hydraulic pressure, hydration, and… I forget.

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  • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m no expert, but plants could all begin growing at the same time in nature thanks to things like wildfires, landslides, etc.

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