Trees are generating systems. Tree defense is centered about boundaries that form about infections, and that resist their spread. New tree parts are always in new spatial positions. Humans keep putting humans at the top Humans write books. Humans have written that humans are at the top of the line for living systems.
Humans feel they are on the top position because humans have a large brain that can think.
Humans run from danger. Humans are regenerating systems that restore injured and infected parts back in old spatial positions. Humans, at best, live about a hundred years. Most trees are still very young at the age of one hundred. Trees are forgiving organisms.