Young Brunette Girl Reveals Her Pink Dress At The Uprooted Tree Windthrow

Trees with decayed trunk, fungus-induced cankers and borer damages are more susceptible to "windsnap".
Ecological effects
Windthrow disturbance generates a variety of unique ecological resources on which certain forest processes are highly dependent. Windthrow can be considered a cataclysmic abiotic factor that can generate an entire new chain of seral plant succession in a given area. Windthrow can also be considered to act as a rejuvenating process whereby regeneration is made possible with new resource availability.