title: Reply to "Comment on 'Critical wind speed at which trees break' ".
abstract: In the preceding comment [A. Albrecht et al., Phys. Rev. E 94, 067001 (2016)10.1103/PhysRevE.94.067001], Albrecht et al. argue that important biomechanical ingredients are missing in our model about the wind speed at which trees break [Phys. Rev. E 93, 023001 (2016)10.1103/PhysRevE.93.023001]. Here we wish to emphasize that our model is an idealization, which primarily aims at evidencing the dominant ingredients of the problem. Since it captures both observed trends and orders of magnitude, we believe that the essential parameters in tree breakage have been identified, a useful step to make further progress and more detailed descriptions.
authors.affiliation: LadHyX, CNRS UMR 7646, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Virot
authors.affiliation: LadHyX, CNRS UMR 7646, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France.|PMMH, CNRS UMR 7636, ESPCI-Paris, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ponomarenko
authors.affiliation: LadHyX, CNRS UMR 7646, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France.|PMMH, CNRS UMR 7636, ESPCI-Paris, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: É
authors.initials: É
authors.lastname: Dehandschoewercker
authors.affiliation: LadHyX, CNRS UMR 7646, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France.|PMMH, CNRS UMR 7636, ESPCI-Paris, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Quéré
authors.affiliation: LadHyX, CNRS UMR 7646, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France.|PMMH, CNRS UMR 7636, ESPCI-Paris, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: C
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authors.lastname: Clanet