This book describes and verifies external shape laws in nature, not only valid for trees, but also for bones, claws, thorns, etc. It is shown how growing structures repair the disturbed optimum design
Offers an understanding of the body language of trees which optimize their mechanical design by adaptive growth, and react with self-repair mechanisms to loads disturbing their optimum mechanical stat
Wood-destroying fungi play an important role in nature, because they are the only forms of life capable of reducing wood to its initial constituents. However, they can also be dangerous for people and