Handful of heavyweight trees per acre are forest champs

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 21:30 in Earth & Climate

Big trees three or more feet in diameter accounted for nearly half the biomass measured at a Yosemite National Park site, yet represented only one percent of the trees growing there, according to the largest quantitative study yet of the importance of big trees in temperate forests.

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