Comment on "critical wind speed at which trees break"

Axel Albrecht; Eric Badel; Vivien Bonnesoeur; Yves Brunet; Thiéry Constant; Pauline Défossez; Emmanuel De Langre; Sylvain Dupont; Meriem Fournier; Barry Gardiner; Stephen J. Mitchell; John R. Moore; Bruno Moulia; Bruce C. Nicoll; Karl J. Niklas; Mart Jan Schelhaas; Hans Christof Spatz; Frank W. Telewski

doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.94.067001

Comment on "critical wind speed at which trees break"

Axel Albrecht
, Eric Badel
, Vivien Bonnesoeur
, Yves Brunet
, Thiéry Constant
, Pauline Défossez
, Emmanuel De Langre
, Sylvain Dupont
, Meriem Fournier
, Barry Gardiner
, Stephen J. Mitchell
, John R. Moore
, Bruno Moulia
, Bruce C. Nicoll
, Karl J. Niklas
, Mart Jan Schelhaas
, Hans Christof Spatz
, Frank W. Telewski

Forest Research Institute Baden-Wuerttemberg
Clermont-Auvergne University
UMR 1092 LERFOB
UR1263 EPHYSE
Forest Research
University of British Columbia
Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Ltd.)
Cornell University
Wageningen University & Research
University of Freiburg
Michigan State University

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Virot et al. [E. Virot, Phys. Rev. E 93, 023001 (2016)10.1103/PhysRevE.93.023001] assert that the critical wind speed at which ≥50% of all trees in a population break is ≈42 m/s, regardless of tree characteristics. We show that empirical data do not support this assertion, and that the assumptions underlying the theory used by Virot et al. are inconsistent with the biomechanics of trees.

Original language	English
Article number	067001
Journal	Physical Review E
Volume	94
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.067001
Publication status	Published - 13 Dec 2016

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Albrecht, A., Badel, E., Bonnesoeur, V., Brunet, Y., Constant, T., Défossez, P., De Langre, E., Dupont, S., Fournier, M., Gardiner, B., Mitchell, S. J., Moore, J. R., Moulia, B., Nicoll, B. C., Niklas, K. J., Schelhaas, M. J., Spatz, H. C., & Telewski, F. W. (2016). Comment on "critical wind speed at which trees break". Physical Review E, 94(6), Article 067001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.067001

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