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  2. Human uses of plants - Wikipedia

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    The ability of trees to graft is occasionally exploited by tree shaping to create living root bridges in Meghalaya and Nagaland states in India and on the islands of Sumatra and Java in Indonesia. The aerial roots of rubber fig trees, Ficus elastica , are used to form suspension bridges across mountain streams.

  3. Then, from 2019 to 2022, they planted nearly 8,500 evergreen trees, 630 deciduous trees — the type that lose leaves in the fall — and 45 different types of shrubs in parts of the 4-mile study ...

  4. Living near trees has unbelievable health benefits - AOL

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    living on a street with 10 more trees than average (both on the street and in backyards) makes you feel as healthy as if you were seven years younger.

  5. Tree - Wikipedia

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    Tree shaping is the practice of changing living trees and other woody plants into man made shapes for art and useful structures. There are a few different methods [135] of shaping a tree. There is a gradual method and there is an instant method.

  6. Human uses of living things - Wikipedia

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    In turn, animals provide much of the meat eaten by the human population, whether farmed or hunted, and until the arrival of mechanised transport, terrestrial mammals provided a large part of the power used for work and transport. A variety of living things serve as models in biological research, such as in genetics, and in drug testing.

  7. Forest - Wikipedia

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    Important for almost half of the birds in North America. Contain 60% of world surface freshwater. Primary Temperate Forests: 119 billion tonnes (like all CO2 emitted by humans in 2005–2017) Old growth forest has very high biodiversity. Some species link terrestrial ecosystems to marine. Some trees can live 1,000 years providing many services ...

  8. Tree shaping - Wikipedia

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    Tree shaping (also known by several other alternative names) uses living trees and other woody plants as the medium to create structures and art. There are a few different methods [2] used by the various artists to shape their trees, which share a common heritage with other artistic horticultural and agricultural practices, such as pleaching, bonsai, espalier, and topiary, and employing some ...

  9. Holiday History: Why Do We Put Up and Decorate Trees?

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    Throughout the next few decades, other materials were used for artificial tree production in other countries as well. And by 1964, TIME magazine declared "fake trees" to be the hot new Christmas ...