treefall
nounEtymology From tree + fall.
1
The act of a tree falling, or the extent to which this occurs in a given region.
- Scramblers and palms that climb with the aid of hook-bearing leaves or modified inflorescences (i.e. Desmoncus and the lepidocaryoid rattans) climbed most successfully in dense clusters of small diameter supports, such as occur on the edge of treefall gaps.1991, Francis E. Putz, The Biology of Vines, page 77: