However, these patterns don’t always correlate with actual tree cover presence or absence, loss or gain. Areas with dense vegetation that are not forests sometimes exhibit similar patterns. In some ...

Thus structure, processes and transport are strongly interconnected, and the efficiency of whole-tree functioning in terms of energy and raw material use is dependent on how well these components are ...

A new 3D analysis shows that wildland fires flare up in forests populated by similar-sized trees or checkerboarded by large clearings and slow down where trees are more varied.

Credit: From “Unique Growth Strategy in the Earth's Frist Trees Revealed in Silicified Fossil Trunks from China,” by Hong-He Xu, Christopher M. Berry, William E. Stein, Yi Wang, Peng Tang 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 ...

Increasing tree species diversity is therefore considered a safe and beneficial intervention for forest managers, which also provides multiple co-benefits beyond human health, such as supporting ...