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Tree types are determined to a great extent by: latitude and altitude.<br />

(1) LIGHT-DEMANDING timbers — THICK, generally rough bark (e.g. oak, black walnut)<br />

(2) SHADE-DEMANDING timbers — THIN, generally smooth bark (e.g. beech, birch)<br />

(3) HARDWOODS — thick (e.g. oak, jarrah) and thin bark (e.g. walnut, cherry, maple, red alder)<br />

(4) SOFTWOODS — thick (e.g. redwood, pine, spruce) and thin bark e.g. (hemlock, fir, larch)<br />

GENERAL<br />

DISTRIBUTION*<br />

(5) CONIFEROUS (6) DECIDUOUS (7) RAINFOREST<br />

(evergreen) (intermittent) (evergreen)<br />

(polar latitudes) (median latitudes) (equatorial latitudes)<br />

(high altitudes) (median altitudes) (low altitudes)<br />

*These boundaries are not necessarily clearly defined.<br />

High altitude trees such as spruce have a relatively short lifespan.<br />

Shortwave ultraviolet light, with its higher energy and intensity,<br />

has a faster dynamic motion with a smaller radius and shorter<br />

period tend to favour evergreens with soft wood. In contrast, low<br />

latitude or low altitude trees like the beech, where long wavelength,<br />

low-energy, low-frequency, less intense light predominates, has<br />

harder wood and a longer lifespan.<br />

Contemporary forestry practice requires trees to grow rapidly in<br />

girth, putting on a profusion of branches. What this produces is a<br />

great quantity of poor quality timber, full of knots. The disregard by<br />

forestry of the light factor is one of the causes of the deterioration<br />

of forests.<br />

The increase of tree diseases in both logged natural forests and<br />

in plantations is a direct result of the exposure to direct sunlight and<br />

heat of a shade-demanding species. There are two ways to determine<br />

whether a tree is a light- or a shade-demander:<br />

Fig. 14.3. Tree type distribution.<br />

Shade-demanding species have thin smooth bark; growing normally<br />

in the cooler inner forest, they do not need to insulate themselves<br />

from the heating effect of direct sunlight. Light-demanding trees on<br />

the other hand have thick, coarse, thermally insulating bark, which is<br />

Nature's way of protecting them from heat and direct sunlight.<br />

14. THE LIFE AND NATURE OF TREES

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