Climb confirms that the world’s tallest tropical tree tops 100 meters

Mongabay
Apr 7, 2019, 6:02 pm262 pts
There’s a new record for the tallest tree in the tropics, and the scientists who found it say it could add to our understanding of how and why some trees grow so tall. A survey from an airplane in 2014 of the forests of Danum Valley Conservation Area in Malaysian Borneo helped University of Nottingham…

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