Using Architecture Modeling of the Devonian Tree  Pseudosporochnus  to Compute Its Biomass

Dambreville, Anaëlle; Meyer‐Berthaud, Brigitte; Barczi, Jean‐François; Decombeix, Anne-Laure; Griffon, Sébastien; Rey, Hervé

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-813012-4.00003-6

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“…In this context, new results on tissue structure and constructional principles of extant trees are important to understand the functional background of tree evolution and to obtain a comprehensive and integrative picture of the life style of fossil trees and their productivity (Decombeix et al 2017;Wilson et al 2017;Dambreville et al 2018). This includes also evolutionary processes resulting in the tree habit.…”

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From tree to architecture: how functional morphology of arborescence connects plant biology, evolution and physics

Roth‐Nebelsick

Miranda

Ebner

et al. 2021

Palaeobio Palaeoenv

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Trees are the fundamental element of forest ecosystems, made possible by their mechanical qualities and their highly sophisticated conductive tissues. The evolution of trees, and thereby the evolution of forests, were ecologically transformative and affected climate and biogeochemical cycles fundamentally. Trees also offer a substantial amount of ecological niches for other organisms, such as epiphytes, creating a vast amount of habitats. During land plant evolution, a variety of different tree constructions evolved and their constructional principles are a subject of ongoing research. Understanding the “natural construction” of trees benefits strongly from methods and approaches from physics and engineering. Plant water transport is a good example for the ongoing demand for interdisciplinary efforts to unravel form-function relationships on vastly differing scales. Identification of the unique mechanism of water long-distance transport requires a solid basis of interfacial physics and thermodynamics. Studying tree functions by using theoretical approaches is, however, not a one-sided affair: The complex interrelationships between traits, functionality, trade-offs and phylogeny inspire engineers, physicists and architects until today.

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confidence: 99%