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    The Mysteries of Moving Water & Trees Age Gracefully

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    This document discusses how water moves through trees and how trees age. It explains that water moves through trees via capillary action, transpiration, and osmosis. As trees age, their bark thickens and sheds layers over time, similar to how human skin renews itself. Different tree species age at different rates, with some retaining smooth bark into old age while others develop thick bark earlier. Even after dying, old trees continue providing nutrients to the forest ecosystem for hundreds of years as their remains decompose.

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    This document discusses how water moves through trees and how trees age. It explains that water moves through trees via capillary action, transpiration, and osmosis. As trees age, their bark thickens and sheds layers over time, similar to how human skin renews itself. Different tree species age at different rates, with some retaining smooth bark into old age while others develop thick bark earlier. Even after dying, old trees continue providing nutrients to the forest ecosystem for hundreds of years as their remains decompose.

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    This document discusses how water moves through trees and how trees age. It explains that water moves through trees via capillary action, transpiration, and osmosis. As trees age, their bark thickens and sheds layers over time, similar to how human skin renews itself. Different tree species age at different rates, with some retaining smooth bark into old age while others develop thick bark earlier. Even after dying, old trees continue providing nutrients to the forest ecosystem for hundreds of years as their remains decompose.

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    The Mysteries of Moving Water & Trees Age Gracefully

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    This document discusses how water moves through trees and how trees age. It explains that water moves through trees via capillary action, transpiration, and osmosis. As trees age, their bark thickens and sheds layers over time, similar to how human skin renews itself. Different tree species age at different rates, with some retaining smooth bark into old age while others develop thick bark earlier. Even after dying, old trees continue providing nutrients to the forest ecosystem for hundreds of years as their remains decompose.

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    The Mysteries of moving water &

    Trees age gracefully


    Chapter 10
    Ayushi Arora

    Source : The hidden life of trees


    Author : Peter Wohlleben
    How does water reach throughout the tree from
    roots to the crown?

     There are three ways due to which


    the water transportation takes places
    in the trees.
    1. Capillary action
    2. Transpiration
    3. Osmosis
    e.g : diameter of the water tubes in
    Deciduous is 0.02 inches
    Coniferous is 0.0008 inches
    Transpiration does not allow the water to completely reach to the crown, because it only
    allows till 900 mm at most.

    Hence, osmosis comes into action, where the cells with more concentration of sugar helps the
    water to rise up, to the more sugary solution.

    From cell to another cell, it reaches till the crown.

    Fact : As the water pressure rises up during the spring


    season, while opening of the leaves, maple syrup in
    Canada and California is acquired during that time.

    The dilemma continues when autumn and winter arrive, leaves shed and transpiration
    are unable to take place. As explained by the author : The water is stored in trunk while
    the capillary action, it pumps so much that diameter of the trunk increases.
    There is bubbling sound made by the trees, during droughts or
    autumn, while sucking water from the ground, air also comes in
    the form CO2 which starts to create such noises. But, in such
    cases Osmosis, Transpiration fail.

    Hence, it still remains a mystery unanswered, that how does


    throughout the year trees get sufficient water even in absence
    of processes, leaves etc.
    Trees age gracefully!
    When we will be 60, old, wrinkled and
    pale, Trees also grow old with the
    same kind of ability in a different
    manner.
    Bark of the tree Separation of a bark
    They loose skin, 0.5 ounces a day, just
    like humans do.
    Different trees age in various manner,
    while some age at 50 years, others
    have smooth bark till 100 years old.

    Bark is the metaphorical skin of the


    tree. So, insects in the bark, taking up
    moisture are not perfect for the
    survival of trees.
    While the separation from the bark of
    the tree is just as uncomfortable as a
    wound to our skin.
    Insects on a tree
    The girth adding could harm the bark, so the skin is
    renewed after intervals.

    The age of the tree is determined by the species


    of the tree.
    For eg. Pines, Oak and Douglas get old early and
    are said to shed so rarely that their bark becomes
    hefty being 70-100 years old

    while others like Beeches whose silver grey have


    smooth bark till 100 years.

    1. Rapid Renewal time of skin


    Mosses colonize the nooks and crannies take up the moisture and then greenery
    starts to grow on it, by which the age of a beech tree is determined.

    Sometimes due to the exposure of sun, the bark of the tree becomes hard and
    inclined to crack.
    Tree Diseases

     When there are thousands of pits and pustules, that don’t disappear is when
    the disease is identified.
     Bacteria move into these damp areas and stain them black.
     large quantities of moss on the branches and in the branch forks of trees of
    this advanced age. Blue-green algae had colonized the trees’ mossy cushions.
     The algae capture nitrogen from the air and process it into a form the trees
    can use. Rain then washes this natural fertilizer down the trunks, making it
    available to the roots. Thus, old trees fertilize the forest and help their
    offspring get a better start in life.
     They catch diseases, like arthritis which leads to shorter plantation and small
    foliage curving up. Some start growing slowly, while others all together stop
    growing.
     The energy level gets lower, hence the height is not maintained throughout
    the age. Once, the trees age, the fungi enter, into their body and heart
    sulking up the nutrition, cellulite and slowly decomposing them.
    The story of a tree which dying, giving space to
    the younger generation to come.

    The rotting cadaver continues to play an


    important role in the ecosystem for hundreds of
    years.

    Since, the graceful aging comes to an end the


    role of trees don’t, even their remains serve the
    ecosystem.

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