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Using water flow sensors and plastic “leaves” that sense wetness, UC Berkeley biologists have discovered that trees living in tropical mountaintop cloud forests drink through their leaves as well as their roots. Todd Dawson and Greg Goldsmith of integrative biology note, however, that studies show that the clouds are disappearing because of climate change.
Tag: trees
‘Pollarding’ trains trees in surrealist school
December 14, 2011:
Grounds crews use pruning technique traced back to medieval Europe to give Berkeley’s signature trees their distinctive look.
Tree-killing pathogen traced to California
September 1, 2011:
California has emerged as the top suspect as the source of a pathogen responsible for a global pandemic of cypress canker disease. The genetic detective work by researchers at UC Berkeley and in Italy spotlights the hazards of planting trees and other vegetation in regions where they are not native.
Art en plein air
May 5, 2011:
Community art students gathered on Faculty Glade Wednesday to capture the season and a landmark buckeye tree, and to pay tribute to one of their artistic predecessors.
Before a tree falls in the forest…
February 18, 2011:
A campus landscape crew used a large crane on Friday to remove a hazardous eucalyptus tree from the edge of the grove near the west entrance to campus.
A winter haircut for Sproul Plaza
December 16, 2010:
Landscaping crews pollard the London plane trees lining Sproul Plaza on Thursday, performing the annual pruning of new growth.
