windthrow
Sign in to saveAlso known as windfall, blowdown, windsnap
thumb|Windsnap in the Bavarian Forest National Park thumb|An old dried out windthrow. Ystad. thumb|right|A large-scale event in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. thumb|Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola windsnapped by [[Hurricane Irma.]] thumb|Young Picea abies|spruce group marginal windthrow area twelve years after Kyrill thumb|Video of windthrow in Tammneeme, Estonia
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It sits within the topics Biogeomorphology, Dead wood and Forest ecology.
Its subject is documented across 15 Wikipedia language editions.
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thumb|Windsnap in the Bavarian Forest National Park thumb|An old dried out windthrow. Ystad. thumb|right|A large-scale event in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. thumb|Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola windsnapped by [[Hurricane Irma.]] thumb|Young Picea abies|spruce group marginal windthrow area twelve years after Kyrill thumb|Video of windthrow in Tammneeme, Estonia
In forestry, windthrow refers to trees uprooted by wind. Breakage of the tree bole (trunk) instead of uprooting is called windsnap. Blowdown refers to both windthrow and windsnap.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “windthrow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.