YOUNG SCIENTISTS
Spreading trees
Why should some trees spread, while others stay together in groups? Tom Kennedy talked to a young scientist, John Clancy, about what he had found out about natural designs.
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hen John Clancy looked around his part of County Clare, he noticed that some trees remained together and were slow to spread, while others were much more evenly distributed. John, a second year student at Mary Immaculate school in Lisdoonvarna, thought that dispersal of seeds must be involved, and he decided that this would be well worth investigating. “I looked at four species,” he said. Horse Chestnut, Apple, Ash, and Sycamore. “They are all very different, so there is a lot of variety there,” he said. As anyone familiar with different tree ???????????????a???????d???????????????????????????????????????????????????M??????????????????????????????????)??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????]?????????M???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????)???????????q??????e??????????!????
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