From 2014 to 2019, the system captured 94 lightning strikes on trees. Dr. Gora and his team visited sites to see which species had been struck. They were looking for dead trees as well as ...

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them Being struck by ...

So, Gora and his colleagues tracked 93 trees that were struck by lightning at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. They used a system of lightning strike ...

Using a unique lightning location system, the team tracked the outcomes of 93 trees that had been struck by lightning in Barro Colorado Nature Monument in central Panama. For two to six years ...

Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a ...

Lightning is a rare but unavoidable threat to trees, and most trees that are unlucky enough to be struck by lightning ... team used their lightning-location system to study nearly 100 lightning ...

New research suggests getting struck by lightning might be beneficial for Dipteryx oleifera trees. © Left: Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Right: wirestock via ...

Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a strike, but also benefit from its effects, according to a recent study.