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Apr. 15, 2021 —More severe and frequent fires in the Alaskan boreal forest are emitting vast stores of carbon, but new research from shows those losses are offset by the fast-growing deciduous trees that replace ...
May 19, 2021 —An ecologist investigates pest infestation in forests with mixed and monoculture tree ...
June 29, 2022 —An new study shows the number of evening grosbeaks using the campus as a migration stop-over site has gone down an average of 2.6% per year over the last four decades, emblematic of population ...
Nov. 3, 2021 —A study has found that periodic mass outbreaks of leaf-munching caterpillars can improve the water quality of nearby lakes - but may also increase the lakes' carbon dioxide ...
Oct. 28, 2022 —Scientists conducted a 7-year study on seedling recruitment and mortality in a national park in Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand. During the study period, an extremely strong El Niño event occurred, ...
Sep. 23, 2022 —Bioscientists turn bacteria into self-assembling building blocks. The macroscale engineered living materials they form could be used to soak up targeted contaminants from the environment or as custom ...
Dec. 3, 2020 —Leaf microbiomes of sugar maple trees vary across the species' range, changing in accordance with the types of trees in the surrounding ...
Feb. 24, 2022 —New research shows rising temperatures are causing Earth's coldest forests to shift northward, raising concerns about biodiversity, an increased risk of wildfires and mounting impacts of climate ...
Aug. 12, 2021 —Researchers have studied how two characteristic Arctic-alpine plant species respond to global warming. They did this by analyzing almost 500 million of their own readings from the mountainous region ...
Sep. 6, 2022 —A research group has found that sudden changes in the development of a nighttime cold-air pool over a small mountain basin in Japan are related to leaf expansion and leaf fall in mountain forests. ...