For centuries, inventor, scholar, and artist Leonardo da Vinci has been lauded for his precise, well-proportioned drawings and imaginative designs.
To be fair, da Vinci was looking at the outside of trees, not the inside of towering timbers where water gets sucked up internal tubes calledHowever, the sizing of these conduits relative to the surrounding tree is what Stuart Sopp and Ruben Valbuena, the co-authors of the new paper, were most interested in. They wanted to make sure models of tree growth were proportioned correctly, to better understand trees' susceptibility to drought and contribution to carbon stores.
"Many biological models [of trees] have since taken inspiration from Leonardo's rule to model both plant exterior branching networks and their vascular systems, despite there being little evidence of the rule occurring consistently," the researchers
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