Officials in Fox Creek, 250 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, have been trying to find new ways to better protect the ...

Known as “carbon sinks,” mangroves, peatlands and boreal forests have helped cool the Earth for thousands of years. By storing billions of tons of CO2 in their soil and vegetation, and locking ...

Urbanization is reshaping soil microbial communities worldwide, driving an unexpected homogenization of bacterial populations ...

Forest ecology is the study of all aspects of the ecology of wooded areas, including rainforest, deciduous and evergreen, temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the ...

Alpine Non-forest alpine plant communities exist on 11 of the Adirondack’s highest peaks, comprising a total of only 85 acres. Here, scattered amongst exposed rock surfaces encrusted with a wide ...

The never-ending cycle of forest fires gets some ‘rare good news’ from first-of-its-kind data on the phenomenon occasionally ...

Mäkelä, A., Arslan A. N., Black, T. A. & Koponen, S. 2018. Proxy Indicators for Mapping the End of the Vegetation Active Period in Boreal Forests Inferred from Satellite-Observed Soil Freeze and ...

Conversely, in unfavourable climates and poor soils, conservative species ... savannahs, temperate forests, tropical forests, boreal forests, grasslands and the Mediterranean biome.

New understanding: Conservative species grow faster in forests However, under real-world conditions in boreal and temperate ... growing conditions (low soil fertility, cold or dry climate ...