Comment on "Critical wind speed at which trees break".

Albrecht, Axel; Badel, Eric; Bonnesoeur, Vivien; Brunet, Yves; Constant, Thiéry; Défossez, Pauline; de Langre, Emmanuel; Dupont, Sylvain et al. · Phys Rev E · 2016

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Virot et al. [E. Virot et al., Phys. Rev. E 93, 023001 (2016)10.1103/PhysRevE.93.023001] assert that the critical wind speed at which ⩾50% of all trees in a population break is ≈42 m/s, regardless of tree characteristics. We show that empirical data do not support this assertion, and that the assumptions underlying the theory used by Virot et al. are inconsistent with the biomechanics of trees.

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