A research team led by the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with multiple ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A two-decade-old experiment in the tropical rainforest of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, is beginning to reveal that human-assisted restoration of logged ...

Forest closure on the three original Krakatau Islands (Panjang, Rakata, and Sertung) took place ca 1930, about 50 yr after the apparent sterilization of the islands due to volcanic eruptions. Two ...

Smithsonian researchers studied 67 forest plots in a section of the Blue Ridge Mountains. They found that hemlock woolly adelgid had decimated hemlock populations. Alan Tepley, Smithsonian ...

Scientists have long warned that rising global temperatures would force forest soils to leak more nitrogen gas into the air, ...

1 In censuses of tree populations in permanent plots, short census intervals and small population size lead to uncertainty in the observed recruitment rate of a minimum size. Increasing the census ...

COLLEGE STATION -- A little-known acreage of trees in Poland planted in the late- 1960s has become a new teaching ground on biodiversity for a team of U.S. researchers. Though planted orchard-style ...