Forests are shaped by light competition. The trees that grow the tallest have access to the most sunlight, blocking the rays ...
Researchers in the United States, Europe, and Argentina have discovered that some trees stop growing in the heat of summer—a ...
John Parker, SERC senior scientist and co-lead scientist of the Functional Forests Project, plants a sapling in the new restoration experiment. To grow a successful forest, planting trees is not ...
New research documents how older trees support younger saplings, and offers a different way to think about logging and ...
In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species across ...
When a record-breaking drought and heat wave swept across China's Yangtze River Basin in 2022, forests across the region ...
Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for ...
The woods I know best, love best, are made of Northern hardwoods, sugar maple and white ash, timber-tall; black and yellow birch, tiger-skinned; seedlings and saplings of blighted beech and striped ...
Frequent bushfires threaten southeastern Australia's alpine ash forests. These trees require fifteen to twenty years to ...
A years-long project to improve forest health, decrease fire risk and establish new pockets of skiable terrain on Bald Mountain is continuing this summer, with crews working in multiple areas.
The death of 'Robin Hood' tree in Sherwood Forest leaves us with one less ancient sentinel. Here's a closer look, from the oldest tree, to the largest.
A new study finds that forests created through China's 66-billion-tree planting campaign are growing faster than natural forests.
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