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 ...

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 ...