As storms become stronger, it might be possible to keep more trees standing if they are planted closer together
at Shinshu University in Japan and her colleagues were monitoring two different plots of Japanese cedar trees, one of which had been thinned to assess whether giving individual trees more room to grow made them more vulnerable to wind damage, when typhoon Trami unexpectedly hit in early September 2018.“I set the plot in 2017 and the typhoon came in 2018, and half of my plot was destroyed,” says Kamimura. “So the [study] is kind of lucky, but also kind of unlucky.
They also found that the trees that did fall in the thinned plot didn’t fail instantly but over time, like a piece of metal that’s repeatedly been bent back and forth before finally breaking.
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