Some effects of Arizona's Dragon Bravo Fire are clear, but what's happened to wildlife may not be known until the flames die ...

Planting trees has long been touted as a major tool in the fight against climate change. And on the surface, that makes a lot ...

Clearing forests to plant crops makes good business sense in the short term for many farmers in tropical regions, where ...

A research team has uncovered significant differences in the soil seed bank density (SSBD) between planted and natural forests, with implications for forest restoration and climate adaptation.

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

A research team led by scientists from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with international partners, analyzed satellite data to ...

In order to reduce the computing time for processing large tree-structured data sets, parallel processing has been used. Recently, research has been done on parallel computing of tree-structured data ...

New research reveals that thunderstorms - not just drought or heat - are a major cause of rising tree deaths in tropical ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

Given climate change, there is an urgent need to conserve natural populations of forest trees and associated ecosystems. In contrast to a growing body of literature on genomic offsets and related ...

A team co-led by a Purdue University researcher has found that groups of fungi influence global tree species in distinct ways, depending on latitude and aridity. The team’s data underscores the ...

The structure of vegetation canopies largely controls the functioning of ecosystems. There is a substantial demand for spatial information on canopy structure. This paper examines the retrieval of an ...