Small trees in the shade of the canopy are able to thrive during dry spells in the Brazilian Amazon, but those exposed to the sun in forest clearings suffer.

Oak trees change their fine roots and "energize" soil microbes by supplying them with a cocktail of small organic compounds, ...

Biodiversity isn’t just about what’s growing in the forest, but also how it’s growing. Forests with a wide range of tree sizes, ages, and canopy openings provide structural diversity.

Competition for sunlight among rainforest trees leads to the remarkably consistent pattern of tree sizes seen in tropical forests around the globe, researchers have found. The finding help refine ...

Forest fragmentation—the division of large, intact woodlands into smaller patches—has emerged as a critical issue in ...

Decades of Tree Data Reveal Forests Under Attack Smithsonian researchers with ForestGEO found that invasive species are linked to roughly one in four tree deaths in a ...

In the research group Forest Structure and Dynamics, we study both managed and natural forests and in a scale, ranging from local to global. We are particularly interested in tree sizes, growth, ...

Making tree rings sing: Researchers find musical muse in forest climate data Joan Meiners Arizona Republic 0:04 ...