Explore: Old Growth Trees

Old-growth forests tend to have large trees and standing dead trees, multilayered canopies with gaps that result from the deaths of individual trees,

is a list of the oldest-known trees. Definitions of longevity vary between clonal trees, ones where parts of the tree continue to live after the death

found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting. The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder that subsists

trees. List of individual trees, including actual and mythical trees List of largest giant sequoias List of old growth forests List of oldest trees List

forest cover that are protected areas. Ecology portal Trees portal List of oldest trees Old-Growth Forest Network Olson, D. M, E. Dinerstein; et al. (2001)

vegetation due to climate change, and logging of old-growth trees which are preferred over new-growth trees . The grey-headed chickadee was described by the

architecture, such as old panel paintings. It is also used as a check in radiocarbon dating to calibrate radiocarbon ages. New growth in trees occurs in a layer

old. Trees evolved around 400 million years ago, and it is estimated that there are around three trillion mature trees in the world currently. A tree

guillemots, murres and puffins. It nests in old-growth forests or on the ground at higher latitudes where trees cannot grow. Its population has declined

ecosystem, with only 3 to 4 tree species per square kilometer. Besides the old-growth trees that, with their domed tree crowns, form a canopy that lets