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Description: Girdling, also called ring barking or ring-barking, is the process of completely removing a strip of bark (consisting of Secondary Phloem tissue, cork cambium, and cork) around a tree's outer circumference, causing its death. Here girdling occurs by deliberate human action to give new habitats to species of dead woods (Lille, North of France, Parc de la Cidatelle (Bois de Boulogne)
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