This article discusses our recent proof that above eight dimensions the scaling limit of sufficiently spread-out lattice trees is the variant of super-Brownian motion called integrated super-Brownian excursion (ISE), as conjectured by Aldous. The same is true for nearest-neighbour lattice trees in sufficiently high dimensions. The proof, whose details will appear elsewhere, uses the lace expansion. Here, a related but simpler analysis is applied to show that the scaling limit of a mean-field theory is ISE, in all dimensions. A connection is drawn between ISE and certain generating functions and critical exponents, which may be useful for the study of high-dimensional percolation models at the critical point.
