Posts for tag "forest"
Balancing Forest Biodiversity and Land Use Benefits
New meta-analysis paper pulls together data from 264 studies to explore ways of balancing forest biodiversity and wood production interests.
- Posted June 27, 2022
Douglas Fir Trees Threatened By Increasing Droughts
University of California, Davis, scientists find that Douglas fir trees in the West are consistently affected by drought conditions.
- Posted September 15, 2016
Saving The Amazon By Selling Tea
Selling tea could save the Amazon, according to a recent Scientific American article. Runa LLC is partnering with Kichwa villagers to preserve the Ecuadorian Amazon by purchasing guayusa tea leaves. Tyler Gage and Dan MacCombie, founders of...
- Posted June 30, 2016
Secondary Forests Key To Mitigating Climate Change
Clemson University researchers help an investigation finding secondary forests can be important carbon sinks just like old-growth forests.
- Posted May 24, 2016
Trees Found To Trade Carbon With One Another
University of Basel researchers made a surprising discovery recently: Trees don’t take up carbon just for themselves, they also trade it with their neighbors through a network of underground symbiotic or mycorrhizal fungi. The carbon is shared...
- Posted May 9, 2016
Trees With Lowest Hydraulic Safety Margin Most Susceptible To Drought
Researchers find the most significant factors, like low hydraulic safety margin, that influence tree survival during drought.
- Posted May 3, 2016
Drought Conditions Impact Post-Fire Recovery Of Rocky Mountain Trees
While many tree species are well adapted to fire, recently Rocky Mountain trees have had more difficulty recovering from fire than in the past, according to a release from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Scientists at the university...
- Posted April 11, 2016
China’s Forests Rebounding With National Conservation Program
China’s forests have suffered in the past, thanks to decades of logging, floods and farmland conversion. But it looks like they may be on the rebound in recent years, according to scientists at Michigan State University. The...
- Posted April 5, 2016
Tree Respiration Rates May Easily Adapt To Temperature Rises
In a predicted future of warmer global temperatures, researchers at the University of Minnesota had guessed that the respiration rates of trees, including some output of carbon dioxide, would increase by broad margins. But in putting the...
- Posted March 24, 2016
Human Interference May Have Reduced Forests’ Ability To Withstand Drought
Americans have been trying to suppress U.S. forest fires since the 1940s through Smokey Bear and other fire-prevention programs. However, suppressing forest fires may have changed the compositions of forests from fire- and drought-resistant species to ones...
- Posted March 23, 2016
‘Cyberforests’ Could Help Predict Future Of North American Forests
It can take 1,000 years for a forest to grow on its own. But thanks to a modeling approach, researchers at Washington State University can grow a digital version in just three weeks. The forests that they...
- Posted March 4, 2016
Long-Term California Drought Impacts Redwood Ferns
Scientists at University of California, Santa Cruz, document how drought impacts redwood ferns, which make up much of the understory of redwood forests.
- Posted February 26, 2016
Secondary Forests Have Huge Carbon Sequestration Potential
When conservation priorities for tropical forests are set, old-growth forests that show no sign of human disturbance often come out ahead of secondary forests. In a new study, an international team of researchers measured 168,000 trees in...
- Posted February 23, 2016
Report Details Impacts Of Drought In U.S.
Forests and grasslands in the United States can’t seem to escape the impacts of drought, according to a new report from the U.S. Forest Service. Scientists at Duke University helped to compile and edit the report, which...
- Posted February 11, 2016
Dissecting Amazon Rainforest Cloud Formation
A Penn State University study looks at how lessening Amazon Rainforest cloud formation could be a bad thing for larger climatic conditions.
- Posted February 10, 2016
Loss Of Interior Forest Globally Causing Significant Ecological Impacts
Even more consequential than the loss of forest is the loss of interior forest. Interior forest is less susceptible to pollution, changes in soil moisture and attacks from invasive species than non-interior forest, making it critical to...
- Posted February 3, 2016
Airborne Observatory Charts California Drought Effects
Scientists use the plane-mounted Carnegie Airborne Observatory to dissect California drought effects in the state’s forests.
- Posted February 2, 2016
Scientists Create Micrometeorology Model Of Transitional Forest In Brazil
The environment between Amazonian Basin rainforest and tropical Brazilian savannah is its own unique environment, called a transitional forest. Transitional forest connects rainforest to savannah and also has its own unique small-scale influences on weather, or micrometeorology....
- Posted January 11, 2016
Survey Finds More Than 3 Trillion Trees Worldwide
Scientists in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences have completed a survey of all the trees worldwide, according to National Public Radio. Their results are staggering when compared to previous estimates of the total tree...
- Posted January 8, 2016
Forest Hydrology Study Considers Old Soil Effects
Duke University researchers use groundwater wells, YSI EXO sondes and tipping bucket rain gauges to study forest hydrology.
- Posted January 6, 2016
