This is exactly what mr. Buckin described in "the heaven of birds". It depicts “pretty paradise”, a large tree in the new conglomerate of jiangmen city, guangdong province, with a canopy of about 15 acres, capable of accommodating hundreds of people at the same time. In the whole natural world, only the pelicans have the ability to form such monolithic forests。
The shadow area of a tree can reach tens of thousands of square metres, equal to the size of a football field. There are a wide variety of organisms around the tree, birds, mammals and plants, and it's just a small ecosystem, and the leader of that ecosystem is the tree。
Pyramid trees are mainly grown in tropical rainforest areas, and behind the dense tropical rainforests are the fierce competition of various organisms. More than 40,000 insects, more than 800 trees and more than 1,500 other plants can be found in one hectare of rainforest。
You might say that the rainforest is climate-friendly, well-fed, soil-rich and suitable for animal and plant survival. But you can see something else through the luxurious appearances。
Under the thick leaves of the rainforest, it is assumed, inevitably, to be nutritious and deplete. In fact, the soil under the rainforest is not only not fertile enough, but even extremely poor. This is because rainfall is particularly abundant in rainforests, and too much water is diverted to the soil and solubility occurs。
The elements required for plants such as phosphorus, potassium, calcium and magnesium in the soil are dissolved in water and are lost to groundwater and rivers as the soil water is seep down. The remaining substances in the soil are less soluble aluminium and iron oxides。
It is because of the presence of the oxide that the soil in many tropical areas is red or light yellow. Not only do these substances fail to meet the growth needs of plants, but they also have toxic effects on rainforest plants if they exceed certain limits。
In tropical rainforests, much of the elements required by plants such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are essentially found in living plants, dead wood and rotting leaves, and soils are always poor。
The tree, on the other hand, is one of the strongest competitors in the field of nutrition. And the aim is not just to survive, but to reach the status of a forest。
What then is the capacity of the pelican tree to grow into a monolithic forest in an arid and competitive tropical rainforest
It's got a lot of gas and roots
Any growth of life requires energy, and trees grow naturally in the same way as water and nutrients, and oscillates grow as big as football fields and cannot feed on the most primitive roots alone。
And how does a pyramid feed enough energy to sustain such a large amount of life
If you've seen the tree with your own eyes, you'll see the branch of the tree with an innumerable root of a mustache like a vine. Come down, big, thin, it's actually the root of the plume。
The root of the gas is from the stem of the twig, which grows down until it reaches the land below. Once the roots touch the ground, they fall into the earth like the real roots。
Thereafter, the stronger the roots, the deeper the subterranean parts develop into real roots, and the bare parts of the ground develop into trunks. It not only absorbs nutrients from the ground but also supports them。
Some 4,000 of the 10,000 square metres of earth-covered oscillating trees are already supporting roots. The tree canopy is very large, and the total weight has reached alarming levels, and the canopy alone cannot sustain the canopy so prescribed。
But with the sharing of the roots of the air, the average number of roots is calculated, and each one of them has to bear the weight of about 2. 5 square metres of tree crowns, which is nothing to a strong root。
In short, the pelicans are fed by a large amount of gas and roots, and share the crown weight that supports the whole pelican tree。
Kill other plants and take resources
The root causes of the gas are the problem of the energy intake and the support of the canopy, which are the problems of the pelicans themselves. The tree wants not only to be established in the rainforest, but also to be alone and monopolized in a large area of resources。
But other trees will not easily cede precious survival resources. As long as they are suitable for growing, they are bound to be full of trees of all kinds. There can't be a place where there are several football fields of space to grow a tree。
How, then, did the tree grow from a seedling to a land mass of 10,000 square metres? This is the second skill of the tree: it kills all the trees that prevent it from growing
Botanical scientists observe that the aerobic roots of the oscillary trees change the direction of growth as soon as they touch external objects。
If they touch objects on the left, they bend to the left; if they touch objects on the right, they bend to the right. This characteristic gives the aerobic roots of the oscillating tree a tendency to entangle the objects it touches。
In bangladesh, thailand and the yunnan region of our country, ancient buddha towers are often seen, surrounded by the roots of the tree, which form the wonder of the tree tower。
This may be due to the fact that the seed of the tree fell into the gap of the buddha with the dung of the bird, and the seed sprouted and became a tree tower after a long period of time. If this is the seed of another tree, at most a small tree seedling will grow on the building, and the tree will be completely different。
Its roots will continue to take root in its branches, once the pagoda cracks. Once they touch the tower, they bend towards it, grab the whole tower and wrap it inside。
What if it wasn't the buddha, but a little tree? You know, of course small trees are wrapped up in the air. As the roots of the gas grow thicker, many small trees are strangled alive due to limited growth。
There's a pine tree called the strangler, and their seeds are transmitted with bats' dung. Once the seeds of the strangulation are sprouted, the roots grow immediately and the soil is searched down。
Once they have taken root, they will grow a lot of gas and hold the trees around them. Once they are rooted in the soil, they affect the roots of the trees and plunder their nutrients。
On the other hand, the strangulation leaves also use trees as ladders, growing up like vines until they climb higher than trees to plunder another important resource in the rainforest — the sun。
Under the frenzy of the strangulations, which must be accompanied by a high-strike attack, the trees, which are packed, often die of malnutrition. As a result, a killer tree has been named for the hanging。
In fact, screeching is common, for example, with grafts and peas, all of which have vines, which are entangled when they come into contact with objects, which, on the one hand, facilitate their own climbing and, on the other, affect the growth of other plants。
It's just that plants like cow-wooling flowers and peas are too short-lived to be galloping other plants, and they're already dead. And the tree has a long life and its gas roots will grow over time, and it will be too late when the galloping plant discovers an attempt to root。
In short, the pyre tree, with its strangulation of its roots, has slowly entangled and killed all the plants that prevent it from growing, which can be described as the weapons of the pyre tree that seizes the land and competes for resources。
It forms the roots and stabilizes the whole tree
The source of nutrients needed to grow is available and the growth space is seized, but there is another problem that needs to be addressed: the problem of stability。
The tree is so large that it may be afraid of the sun or competition from other plants, but afraid of the wind. Imagine, if there was a super wind, would it be easy for the tree to be scraped or even turned over
The answer is no, because it also has a function to keep the whole tree very stable on the ground without fear of wind and wind. Of course, it is not enough simply to rely on the pristine state of gas rooting, because the initial roots are thin, even if they are thick, relatively long trunks。
Let's see how the root of air gives itself the ability to fix the whole tree:
The first part of this is about the screeching of the root of the air, which changes course of growth when it comes to other objects, which is the same thing that happens to the root of the air when it comes to the tree itself, and they entangle themselves。
A large number of cross-cutting aerobics entangled together over time, forming a much larger structure. When it approaches the ground, it disperses around the ground and forms the side root of the plank, which is the root。
The form of the slabs is particularly like the tails of the bottom of the rocket, where the platinum tree is firmly supported and it does not shake around. Even in the event of a typhoon, the tree can be stabilized on the ground without being blown down. The older the tree, the taller it grows. Some of the ancient giant trees, one of which can grow to more than 3 metres high and extend over a dozen metres。
Thus, the stability of the pelican tree is addressed by the evolution of its roots, the existence of which holds the pelican tree firmly on the ground and will not be lifted by the wind or rain。
Concluding remarks
Seeing it here, you may have understood that the pelican tree is so big that it can grow into a single tree。
Aerobics vary in many ways, increasing energy ingestion, providing support for the pelican tree, scrutinizing other plants, seizing resources for the pelican tree, and developing into ground roots and increasing the stability of the pelican tree。
In addition, the monolithic forest, the gallows and the groundy maze, the characteristics of the tree have profoundly changed the surrounding environment. Not only are more and more small animals home to pineapples, orchids, pineapple, pineapple, etc., and have found their place on the pineapple。
From a monopolistic enterprise on the one hand, the pelican tree has been transformed into an open platform capable of accommodating a wide variety of ecology, with a close symbiotic relationship with the surrounding flora and fauna。
