In ecology, competition ... close. Intraspecific completion can suppress growth. For example, tadpoles take longer to mature when they are crowded, and foresters know that thinned-out tree ...

A famous 198-year-old Russian oak tree was been banned from entering the European Tree of the Year competition due to the ongoing invasion in Ukraine. Planted by novelist Ivan Turgenev ...

Photo credit: Aleksey Lepili / commons.wikimedia.org (CC-BY-SA-4.0) The Turgenev oak tree is going to participate in the European Tree of the Year competition even though it was recently knocked down ...

An oak said to be associated with the Robin Hood legend has won England's first Tree of the Year competition. The Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, took 18% of the votes in the poll ...

An online public poll will select the winner, which will then go forward to compete in the European Tree of the Year contest early in 2025. PA Media The Queen Elizabeth Oak in Sussex is believed ...

Nottinghamshire County Council said it was pleased the competition gave the Major Oak such a high profile. Because of its national importance, conservation measures to the tree have been carried ...

George Anderson, of Woodland Trust Scotland, said: "It is the tree that time forgot but the piper remembered." The oak is now a contender in the European Tree of the Year competition.