{"id":3857,"date":"2019-11-20T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/afs\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2019-11-26T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:37:07","slug":"the-cause-of-bark-stripping-of-young-plantation-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2019\/11\/20\/the-cause-of-bark-stripping-of-young-plantation-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"The cause of bark stripping of young plantation trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p align=\"justify\"><em>The author of this opinion paper, Dr Thomas White, passed away on 27th August 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Herbivorous mammals, from small voles to large ungulates, strip and eat the bark of young plantation trees. They do this most frequently at times when sources of protein food that can support their reproduction and lactation are in short supply. Furthermore, they preferentially attack\u2014often repeatedly\u2014trees that have experienced some form of environmental stress, leaving neighbouring trees untouched. Such stressed trees carry higher levels of amino acids in their phloem. These facts, coupled with the similarly timed and selective harvesting of bark phloem by some Australia marsupials and Northern Hemisphere woodpeckers indicate that it is the trees\u2019 protein-enriched phloem that the bark strippers are seeking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\nAmino acids, Cambium feeders, Drought, Environmental stress, Marsupial gliders, Nitrogen nutrition, Woodpeckers<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13595-019-0888-x'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p><strong>Publication<\/strong><br \/>\nWhite, T. Annals of Forest Science (2019) 76: 105. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13595-019-0888-x\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13595-019-0888-x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the read-only version of the full text: <a href=\"https:\/\/rdcu.be\/bW3fA\">https:\/\/rdcu.be\/bW3fA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Data availability<\/strong><br \/>\nData sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of this opinion paper, Dr Thomas White, passed away on 27th August 2019. Herbivorous mammals, from small voles to large ungulates, strip and eat the bark of young plantation trees. They do this most frequently at times when sources of protein food that can support their reproduction and lactation are in short supply. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-type","category-opinion-paper","cat-14-id","cat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}