Forests are shaped by light competition. The trees that grow the tallest have access to the most sunlight, blocking the rays ...
A Chinese proverb says that the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second best time is today. But it's not easy to ensure the trees of today actually become the healthy, functioning ...
John Parker, SERC senior scientist and co-lead scientist of the Functional Forests Project, plants a sapling in the new restoration experiment. To grow a successful forest, planting trees is not ...
In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species across ...
Suzanne Simard’s new book urges Western science to take a lesson from the more holistic Indigenous approach to forest preservation. By Deborah Blum Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science ...
A study published in Science found that two-thirds of the populations of all 4,950 tree species that make up the Atlantic Forest are threatened with extinction. The Atlantic forest, which stretches ...
It has many names: multi-story cropping, agroforestry, forest farming. All of these refer to farming within treed land. It’s a great way to seamlessly integrate the farm into the landscape and ...
Across Australia, forests are quietly changing. Trees that once stood for decades or centuries are now dying at an accelerating rate. And this is not because of fire, storms, or logging. The chronic ...
A Chinese proverb says that the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second best time is today. But it’s not easy to ensure the trees of today actually become the healthy, functioning ...
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