The findings suggest a shift from the perception of trees as individuals towards understanding forest ecosystems as "superorganisms." "My colleague Martin Bader and I stumbled upon this kauri tree ...

“Immediately the question comes up, why would a tree be alive without any foliage?” To find out, the duo returned and stuck both the stump and the two nearest kauri trees with bunches of ...

Kauri trees are among the largest (total mass ... fronds against the building’s curved lath ceiling. Although these palm trees are commonly available and grown in California, they are nearly ...

In a forest in New Zealand, a vampire clings to life. Once a mighty kauri tree — a species of conifer that can grow up to 165 feet (50 meters) tall — the low, leafless stump looks like it ...

By JoAnna Klein In a rain forest near Auckland, New Zealand, a leafless kauri tree stump rises a few feet off the ground. These trees can become giants: The country’s biggest, Tāne Mahuta ...

artists and Māori elders were gathered to share knowledge and inspiration on how to save an iconic tree species, kauri, from a lethal pathogen, Phytophthora agathidicida. Elder Tohe Ashby had just ...

We suggest this supply can continue beyond the apparent death of an individual tree. By measuring water flow in the stem of a living kauri (Agathis australis) stump and its neighbouring trees ...

Tāne Mahuta, an ancient tree named after the god of forests in Māori mythology, is threatened by the slow creep of an incurable disease. Tourists visiting Tāne Mahuta, the largest known kauri ...

MEASUREMENTS have been carried out of the carbon-13/carbon-12 ratio in a New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) a thousand years old. This tree grew in the Omahutu Forest, in the north of New ...

The tree—an Agathis australis, better known as its Māori name kauri—was found in Ngawha, on New Zealand's North Island, during excavation work for the expansion of a geothermal power plant ...

AN article dealing with the controversy over the question of the preservation of the famous kauri tree of New Zealand, with particular reference to the treatment and control of Waipoua Forest ...