New study disproves Leonardo da Vinci's 'rule of trees'

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New study disproves Leonardo da Vinci's 'rule of trees'
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A 'rule of trees' developed by Leonardo da Vinci to describe how to draw trees has been largely adopted by science when modeling trees and how they function.

). Four network models are presented, showing the differences between West et al, Savage et al), Rosell and Olson and our gMST relationships of plant morphology, reaching from the plant base to the tip of the leaves. Values encircled in green are explicitly given as premises by the authors, while other values are inferred. Credit:A"rule of trees" developed by Leonardo da Vinci to describe how to draw trees has been largely adopted by science when modeling trees and how they function.

It had been thought that Leonardo's"rule of trees" could also be applied to the vascular channels which transport water through a tree, with the individual channel sizes decreasing at the same ratio, as branches become narrower, while still adding up to the trunk's volume. This rule had been accepted as part of metabolic scaling theory.

Ruben Valbuena and Stuart Sopp of Bangor University and SLU have calculated that for hydraulic resistance to work, there comes a point where the rule of trees can no longer hold true.

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