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2. Tree shelter - Wikipedia

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   Young trees sheltered by plastic tubes. A tree shelter, tree guard or tree tube (sometimes also Tuley tube) is a structure used in tree planting, arboriculture and tree care that protects planted tree saplings from browsing animals and other dangers as the trees grow.

3. If You See Metal Wrapped Around a Tree, This Is What It Means

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   This idea is similar to tree wraps, which protect trees from critters and the elements. However, these wraps are more aimed at protecting the tree’s trunk or bark from animals, sunscald and even ...

4. Pseudomyrmex ferruginea - Wikipedia

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   To repel herbivorous animals, various acacias protect their succulent leaves with one of several methods, including vicious-looking spines, repellent, noxious chemicals, and—as is the case with the bullhorn acacia—by developing a mutualism with the acacia ant.

5. Girdling - Wikipedia

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   Girdling prevents the tree from sending nutrients from its foliage to its roots, resulting in the death of the tree over time, and it can also prevent flow of nutrients in the other direction depending on how much of the xylem is removed. A branch completely girdled will fail; and, when the main trunk of a tree is girdled, the entire tree will ...

6. Gummivore - Wikipedia

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   A gummivore is an omnivorous animal whose diet consists primarily of the gums [clarification needed] and saps of trees (about 90%) and insects for protein. [1] Notable gummivores include arboreal, terrestrial primates like certain marmosets and lemurs. These animals that live off of the injuries of trees live from about 8m off of the ground up ...

7. Monochamus scutellatus - Wikipedia

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   Resources in this case refer to the quality of tree trunk that the male has won; females prefer basal trunk regions with a large diameter. [8] Females then choose mates mainly on the basis of their resources, but when resources are equal, Hughes and Hughes [ 9 ] observed that they choose larger males preferentially.