Kamimura, Kana 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4807-5020, Nanko, Kazuki ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1157-9287, Matsumoto, Asako, Ueno, Saneyoshi, Gardiner, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1902-3416 and Gardiner, Barry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4106-9026
(2022)
Tree movements, wind loading, and wind speeds.
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Description
In the future with climate change, we expect more forest and tree damage due to the increasing strength and changing trajectories of tropical cyclones (TCs). However, to date, we have limited information to estimate likely damage levels and, importantly, nobody has ever measured exactly how forest trees behave mechanically during a TC. In 2018, a category-5 TC destroyed trees in our on-going research plots, in which we were measuring tree movement and wind speed in two different tree spacing plots. Interestingly, we found damaged trees in only the wider spaced plot. Here for the first time we present how trees dynamically respond to strong winds during a TC. Sustained strong winds obviously trigger the damage to trees and forests, but inter-tree spacing is also a key factor because the level of support from neighboring trees modifies the effective “stiffness” against the wind both at the single tree and whole forest stand level.
| Keywords: | Dryad |
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| Depositing User: | Data Catalogue Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2022 14:20 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Nov 2022 14:20 |
| DOI: | 10.5061/dryad.r4xgxd2dj |
| Original Record Link: | https://datadryad.org/stash/share/1u9RoAKGCcZGlszvIPcNc5-0aGfCS3t7pEsXYAgrx2s |
| URI: | https://datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/1873 |
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