Hidden Mite Armies Take Over Decaying Leaves in Surprising Winter Surge
A year-long litterbag experiment in Caucasus forests reveals how soil mites and springtails colonize decaying oak and beech leaves, with ...
Tag: forest ecology
Rare Trees Tell a Hidden Story in China’s Giant Water Diversion Forests
A survey of 2,210 woody plants in the water source forests of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project shows that rare ...
Global Forest Edges Shrank by 24 Million Kilometers in Two Decades
The first high-resolution global maps of forest edge dynamics reveal a 24 million kilometer decline in edge length from 2000 ...
Tiny Head Starts Decide Which Beech Trees Survive for Decades
A 25-year University of Göttingen study shows that beech seedlings just one or two centimeters taller than their neighbors in ...
Aspen Leaves Carry Chemical Memories of Past Droughts, Study Finds
University of Utah researchers found that quaking aspen trees alter the chemical defenses in their leaves for years after drought, ...
AI Meets Human Expertise to Map How Mixed Forests Deliver Ecosystem Services
Researchers combined a retrieval-augmented GPT-4o agent with expert oversight to conduct a scoping review of how plant functional traits shape ...
Hidden Engineers of the Forest Floor: Shrubs Rewire Soil Carbon and Nutrient Cycling
A study of Polish pine forests shows that hazel, buckthorn, and rowan shrubs each leave distinct biochemical fingerprints on soil ...
Tree Roots Break the Rules: Global Study Reveals No Universal Law for Nitrogen and Phosphorus Scaling
A global analysis of woody plants shows that coarse root nitrogen and phosphorus scaling is loose and highly variable, shaped ...
Hidden Salt in the Soil Shapes Which Trees Can Live Together in Subtropical Forests
High-resolution mapping in a subtropical Chinese forest reveals that patchy soil sodium is a dominant, previously overlooked driver of tree ...
Boreal Forests Rewrite the Rules of Nitrogen Uptake Under Long-Term Deposition
A 15N tracer experiment in a Chinese Dahurian larch forest shows that long-term nitrogen addition reshapes how trees take up, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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