Fire is a hot topic these days, particularly when it comes to the boreal forest, the vast expanse of trees that stretches across Alaska, Canada and other cold northern regions. Large fires have been ...

With the memories of smoky skies replaced with winter fog, let’s hope our forestry planners are keeping clear eyes on the need to radically change our conifer-focused reforestation policies. This must ...

Plants that drop all their leaves at one time and enter a leafless, dormant state are called deciduous. In climates that experience cold winters, the leafless period for trees and shrubs is during the ...

Aims Any grouping of tree species concerned with SOC sequestration should include trees that are as homogeneous as possible in their carbon sequestration. We propose a classification of tree species ...

Trees provide shade, color and stormwater assistance. But 92 percent of Portland's street are lined with broadleaf deciduous trees that drop their leaves as winter rains begin. Members of just two ...

A team of researchers projected that the combination of climate change and increased wildfires will cause the iconic evergreen conifer trees of Alaska to get pushed out in favor of broadleaf deciduous ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Plant–soil feedbacks can maintain or reinforce alternative states within ecological systems. In Alaskan boreal forests, changes in fire ...

A new initiative that aims to plant a tree for every man, woman and child in Greater Manchester has begun as volunteers planted trees at Wythenshawe Sports Ground. Students and local residents planted ...

Jill Johnstone acknowledges funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in Canada and in the United States from the Long Term Ecological Research Program (National Science ...

Jill Johnstone, University of Saskatchewan; Heather Dawn Alexander, Auburn University; Michelle C. Mack, Northern Arizona University, and Xanthe Walker, Northern Arizona University Fire is a hot topic ...