With several factors threatening a “decline spiral” in Oregon’s forests, experts say a hedging strategy may help landowners prevent the health of their woodlots from deteriorating. After long pursuing ...

A 20-year study shows that degraded Amazon forests can physically recover after fires, droughts, and storms, but lose species diversity and become more vulnerable to future disturbances. Researchers ...

Even after fires, severe droughts, and windstorms, the vegetation in degraded Amazonian forests demonstrates a high capacity ...

A relatively new program in Vermont is helping both maple syrup-producing farms and their customers to improve forest habitat preferred by a diversity of bird species. Launched in 2014, the ...

Uniform and intensive forest management approaches threaten European forest biodiversity. There are many different ways to manage forests, but the effects of different combinations of approaches are ...

Tallahassee is fortunate to currently have a considerable urban forest, though it is constantly being whittled away through development, storms, and fear of storm-related damage to homes. The average ...

In the current issue of the Journal of Applied Ecology, researchers from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) report that roe deer restrict the natural regeneration of deciduous forests far ...

WASHINGTON— A coalition of environmental groups called on the U.S. Forest Service today to strengthen protections for the nation's mature and old-growth forests and trees. The move came in response to ...

A new study led by Prof. Chen Hongsong from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed that calcium-rich bedrock can reshape the latitudinal diversity ...