def store_trees(trees_collection, format, dest=None):
"Writes the list of trees `trees` to `dest` using writer."
deprecation("'dataio.store_trees()' is deprecated: use 'write()' method of a Dataset object instead", logger_obj=_LOG)
if isinstance(trees_collection, TreesBlock):
trees_block = trees_collection
else:
trees_block = TreesBlock()
for tree in trees_collection:
trees_block.append(tree)
trees_block.normalize_taxa()
dataset = Dataset()
dataset.add_trees_block(trees_block=trees_block)
return store_dataset(dataset=dataset,
format=format,
dest=dest)
