Forestry

New research has identified the genetic basis of resistance to ash dieback in UK trees, opening up new avenues for conservation. Researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew sequenced the DNA from…

Credit: Tao Huang Atmospheric reactive nitrogen (N) deposition has more than doubled over the past century.  It is very important to estimate the rates and sources of N deposition because it's considered as a main factor of ecosystem…

The fires that raged across the Brazilian Amazon this summer were not 'normal' and large increases in deforestation could explain why, scientists show.Credit: Marizilda Cruppe/Rede Amazônia Sustentável The fires that raged…

Innovative combination of forest models with satellite data provide more precise estimatesCredit: © R-M-Nunes_Shutterstock The world's tropical forests store huge quantities of carbon in their biomass and thus constitute an important…

Research brings better news for European ash trees For the past decade the outlook has been gloomy for European ash trees devastated by Ash dieback and facing the threat of more invasive pests. Now the latest scientific research brings…

Water ecosystems with high nitrate concentrationCredit: Rubén Ladrera (University of La Rioja, Spain) Insects, crustaceans and other water macroinvertebrates are more affected by the effect of sediment accumulation in river courses…

Modified natural materials will be an essential component of a sustainable future, but first a detailed understanding of their properties is needed. The way heat flows across bamboo cell walls has been mapped using advanced scanning…

Credit: JIANG Yanjuan Numerous insects and pathogens extract nutrients from phloem tissue buried deep inside plants. These phloem-feeding insects and pathogens cause tremendous economic losses worldwide and represent some of the…

Credit: Fernanda Coelho, University of Leeds An international team of researchers led by the University of Leeds have revealed for the first time that Amazon forests with the greatest evolutionary diversity are the most…

Credit: Mari Pihlatie A recently published study, completed by researchers from the University of Helsinki together with Dr Katerina Machacova, a visiting scholar, demonstrates that boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere are sources of…