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The Crow’s Path Blog2024-04-29T15:30:29-04:00

We're picking up where we left off (here's part 1), with two trees of similar stature, though each with vastly different numbers of leaves. Our sugar maple comes in at 1,060 leaves, while our striped maple has just 306. At first glance, this seems like a significant difference, but striped maple leaves are gigantic while sugar maples, well, aren't. So we need a better way to compare these two numbers. Here I want to figure out two things: first which tree takes up more space in the canopy and second, which tree has more photosynthetic surface area. And next time we'll look at some of the differences in the life history strategies of striped vs sugar maple.

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