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    Plant trunk thorns protect against bark gnawing and climbing by mammals...

    • Last Update: 2022-05-15
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    Théodore Lefebvre , a doctoral student in the Community Ecology and Conservation Group of the Banna Botanical Garden , under the guidance of researcher Kyle Tomlinson , in cooperation with the French Institute of Ecology and Environment, conducted a trait analysis on 31 tropical woody plants in the Banna Botanical Garden to verify whether the morphological strategy can be used.


    Related results were published in Annals of Botany under the title " Trunk spines of trees: a physical defence against bark removal and climbing by mammals? " .


    This research was supported by the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ph.


     

    Types of traits of plant trunk thorns 

     Simulation of Effects on Mammalian Debarking and Climbing Ability 

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