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Dendrology: The community of trees

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Richard Fortey ponders a study that casts forests as exquisitely complex, multistorey networks.

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  1. Richard Fortey is a research associate at the Natural History Museum, London. His latest book is The Wood for the Trees, an essay on the history and natural history of a small English beechwood.,

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