Forestry

Credit: Buckfastleigh Flood Action Group The planting of woodlands in upland areas could play a significant role in preventing the flash flooding which has increasingly affected communities across the world in recent years. A…

Regrowing forests are absorbing just a small proportion of the carbon dioxide released from widespread deforestation in the Amazon, according to new evidenceCredit: Marizilda Cruppe/RAS Regrowing forests are absorbing just a small…

Credit: Akira S. Mori, Yokohama National University The afterlife of plant matter plays a significant role in ecosystems, as a key processor and provider of key nutrients. The rate of decomposition for leaf litter, among other plant…

Credit: University of Saskatchewan Conversion of large swaths of land to uniform tree plantations and single-crop species may lead to unintended consequences for the water cycle, putting ecosystems at greater risk for fires,…

Credit: Courtesy of Philip Lavretsky. EL PASO, Texas - A team of researchers from multiple institutions led by Philip Lavretsky, Ph.D., assistant professor in The University of Texas at El Paso's Department of Biological Sciences, was…

Credit: Courtesy of Sebastian Busby | Portland State University In recent years -- and 2020 is no exception -- parts of the Pacific Northwest that are typically too wet to burn are experiencing more frequent, severe and larger…

Credit: Robin Naidoo The COVID-19 pandemic has fired up interest in outdoor activities in our parks and forests. Now a new UBC study highlights the need to be mindful of how these activities may affect wildlife living in…

Credit: (Photo: Simon Thorn / University of Wuerzburg) Storms, fires, bark beetles: Many forests around the world are increasingly affected by these and other natural disturbances. It is common practice to eliminate the…

Salvage harvesting damages vital habitat for wildlife speciesCredit: Photo credit Angelina Kelly. New research from UBC Okanagan shows that salvage logging on land damaged by wildfires has negative impacts on a variety of…

Credit: Emeric Stephane Boigne As wildfires rage across much of the American West, researchers at Stanford have used CAT scanners, the same instruments used in medicine to peer inside the human body, to understand the process of…

Credit: Lucas Harris / Penn State A warming climate and more frequent wildfires do not necessarily mean the western United States will see the forest loss that many scientists expect. Dry forest margins may be more resilient to…

By harnessing diverse current and historical data with space and time dimensions, scientists will be able to better predict and help rural communities respond to the impact of climate change on biodiversity. In response to a changing…

Credit: Photo courtesy OSU College of Forestry CORVALLIS, Ore. - Squeezed by changing ocean conditions that limit their food options and the long-term loss of old forest needed for nesting, marbled murrelets would benefit most from…

MADISON, WI, Sept. 21, 2020 - USDA Forest Service scientists have published an in-depth study on the value of tree planting as a means of offsetting carbon emissions in the United States. An analysis based on publicly available data from…

Credit: Juliana Siqueira-Gay Research has found a proposal to regulate mining of Indigenous lands in Brazil's Amazon rainforest could affect more than 863,000 square kilometres of forest and harm the nation's economy. Led by…

From Berryessa to Klamath Mountains, high-severity burns quadrupled during warm droughtCredit: UC Davis High-severity wildfires in northern coastal California have been increasing by about 10 percent per decade since 1984, according to…

In Texas, mesquite trees are as common as football, thunderstorms and hot summer nights. It is a staple of outdoor cooking and prevalent in almost every part of the state. But, for land managers, the spread of honey mesquite, a native…

Assessment of continent's primary forests shows many unprotected, logged, able to be restoredCredit: Hanns Kirchmeir Like its ancient cathedrals, Europe has a remarkable--but poorly understood--legacy of old-growth forests. These…

Credit: (c) Dr Deirdre Mikkelsen, The University of Queensland The secret of how fibre shapes the structure of plant cell walls has been revealed, with potentially wide-ranging applications ranging from nutrition and health…

Credit: LaHusen et al/Science Advances Researchers at the University of Washington, Portland State University and the University of Oregon have shown that deep-seated landslides in the central Oregon Coast Range are…