Rudolf Schmid's scientific contributions

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... Additionally, the qPipe model provides over/underestimations due to other factors. For example, many long-lived 'giant' trees 38,39 are known to undergo treetop breakage because of natural phenomena such as lightning strikes and strong winds. Such trees are expected to have a less tapered, cylindrical stem (i.e., X > 2 in Eq. (3)) owing to the loss of their top part and would have a much higher H value if breakage had not occurred. ...