Forest soil stores water, carbon and nutrients for trees and also provides a habitat for living organisms. When managing forests, it is particularly important to work in a way that protects the ...

Royal walnut moth dries its wings on the stem of a fairy candle after emerging from the soil below ... While most wildflowers ...

A new paper published in Nature Communications reveals how the way tree species are arranged in a forest can help optimize ...

Biodiversity isn’t just about what’s growing in the forest, but also how it’s growing. Forests with a wide range of tree ...

All mycorrhizal fungi mine soil nutrients and provide them to trees ... do so in different ways with profound impacts on forest tree diversity. "What we can see above ground is governed to a large ...

The civilization was known for sophisticated urban centers, ceremonial platforms, cliffside burial structures, and agricultural terraces. The regional chiefdom society also had a distinctive ...

American forests are important sources of carbon sequestration, storing millions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. However, a unique experiment led by Peter Reich, University of Michigan professor ...

Hidden fungal networks influence which trees thrive, offering new insight into forest biodiversity and resilience in a ...

The USDA is rolling back a 2001 rule that protected state land in the Cherokee National Forest in East Tennessee and the Land ...

Professor Xinzhang Song (Zhejiang A&F University) et al. conducted a study that revealed the response of soil CO2 emissions in bamboo forests of humid regions to straw mulching and its ...

School forests have also been found to improve learning outcomes and student well-being. With support from the U.S. Forest Service, a project is underway in Alabama that aims to bring thousands of ...

Continued hot, dry weather and the increasing fire hazard has prompted the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest to expand ...