Forestry

New study points to successes and gaps in the state's landscape-level conservation designCredit: Joshua Brown/UVM For the first time in more than a century, Vermont and neighboring states are losing forestland to development at a rate…

UD's Pinki Mondal offers recommendations on using remote sensing to quantify forest healthCredit: Photo courtesy of Pinki Mondal While using large swaths of coarse satellite data can be an effective tool for evaluating forests on a…

Researchers investigate how forests are changing in response to global warming As the climate is changing, so too are the world's forests. From the misty redwoods in the west to the Blue Ridge forest of Appalachia, many sylvan ecosystems…

Credit: Jedediah Brodie MISSOULA - An international team of researchers, including two from the University of Montana, are working to help identify priority forest areas for protection on Borneo. The government of the state of Sabah in…

Credit: LIU Hui Given the fundamental biological differences in plants and animals, previous research proposed that plants may have broader environmental tolerances than animals but are more sensitive to climate. However, a recent study…

Two research collections showcase new tools to protect ecosystems from invasive insects and related arthropodsCredit: Fruit fly: USDA ARS Photo Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org. Gypsy moth: Karla Salp, Washington State…

Tropical forest ecosystems are an important part of the global carbon cycle as they take up and store large amounts of CO2. It is however uncertain how much these forests' ability to take up and store carbon differ between forests with…

Credit: KIB Joint research conducted by The Nature Conservancy and the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences calculated the carbon-storing power of global soils and showcased approaches like agroforestry designed to…

Sensory danger zones: How sensory pollution impacts animal survivalCredit: David Stoner/Utah State University A new paper including research from a Utah State University scientist provides a framework for understanding how light and noise…

Credit: Jedediah Brodie MISSOULA - Jedediah Brodie has spent a career tromping around tropical rainforests, conducting on-the-ground research in some of the world's most lush and diverse regions. An ecologist and conservation…

The fate of tropical forest fragments In one of the first studies to explicitly account for fragmentation in tropical forests, researchers report that smaller fragments of old-growth forests and protected areas experienced greater losses…

In patients with epilepsy, normal neurological activity becomes disrupted, causing debilitating seizures. Now, researchers report in ACS Chemical Neuroscience that they have found a potential new treatment for this disorder by turning to…

Large ecosystems, such as the Amazon rainforest, will collapse and disappear alarmingly quickly, once a crucial tipping point is reached, according to calculations based on real-world data. Writing in Nature Communications…

Credit: Illustration by E. Paul Oberlander, with permission from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution MADISON, Wis. -- When El Nino approaches, driven by warm Pacific Ocean waters, we've come to expect both drenching seasonal rains in…

Deforestation for consumer products increases malaria transmission Researchers at the University of Sydney and University of São Paulo, Brazil, estimate 20 percent of the malaria risk in deforestation hot spots is driven by the…

Local communities in the Congo rainforest have been working with researchers from the University of York in a bid to balance the bushmeat trade with conservationCredit: Rodrigue Batumike Local communities in the Congo rainforest have been…

Credit: Michael Stölzle Heat, dry conditions, and the resulting low flows in rivers and lakes characterized the summer months of 2003, 2015 and 2018 in Europe. Another low flow period is on the cards for the summer of 2020. Researchers…

Credit: Asim Hafeez CABI scientists, as part of an international team of researchers, have discovered a new biological control in the fight against the highly noxious and invasive weed parthenium (Parthenium hysterophorus) in Pakistan.…

X-ray analysis points the way to lignin-based components made to measureCredit: KTH Stockholm, Marcus Jawerth The biopolymer lignin is a by-product of papermaking and a promising raw material for manufacturing sustainable plastic…

Credit: Yuanyuan Huang The forest biodiversity experiment BEF-China began in 2009 with the collaboration among institutions in China, Germany and Switzerland and is one of the world's biggest field experiment. In the subtropical forests…