Dr Rebecca Hsu

Most of the trees, we don't have the trail to that tree, so we have to bushwalk.

I can only judge from the map.

I complained with my friend that...

Your map is not true.

There's a goji here, but you don't see the goji in the map.

Before we saw the tree, it's all imagination from the LiDAR.

So we bring 50 meters rollers and we measure two or three times.

When we get the real number, we all very excited because it's breaking the record.

They all grow in similar elevation around 2000, which is a mountain cloud forest.

in Taiwan.

And you know, for those trees, if they simply absorb water from the root, it's very difficult because they are so tall.

So in North America, for the redwood, they found redwood can absorb clouds, water, directly from the leaves.

Yeah, right.

And last year, we're doing some experiment from Tawania seedling.

We found that they do the same thing.

They can absorb water from the leaves.

And I want to check if big trees do that as well.

Actually, these big trees, they all grow in a very old-growth forest.

And we are lucky that in Taiwan, we still have a massive area of old-growth forest.

And two years ago, we did a carbon density measurement in one giant tree's valley.