#canopy shyness

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Crown Shyness, Tasmania, Australia: Social distancing is a behaviour that millions of people of around the world are now familiar with, used as a tool to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Some trees have also been keeping their distance from one another. This phenomenon is called crown shyness.. Crown shyness (also canopy disengagement, canopy shyness, or inter-crown spacing is a phenomenon observed in some tree species, in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with channel-like gaps. Wikipedia

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Crown Shyness in temperate rainforest of Great Otway National Park Victoria Australia. "Crown shyness (also canopy disengagement, canopy shyness, or intercrown spacing) is a phenomenon observed in some tree species, in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with channel-like gaps.' - wikipedia