Trees are the lifeblood of the forest. While alive, they form their body; as snags (standing dead trees), they provide ...

Far beyond the Christmas tree farms, in forests and ravines, lie the woolly-barked nurse logs. At first glance they are simply fallen trees: the corpses of the woods. But now they live a second, ...

A reader asked the following questions about trees. No. 1: When hiking, I often see what appear to be several trees growing from a central trunk. What causes this? No. 2: At a local park an oak tree ...

A reader asked the following questions about trees: (1) When hiking, I often see what appear to be several trees growing from a central trunk. What causes this? (2) At a local park an oak tree and a ...

Other stations along the Waldbauer trail discuss concepts such as the ecological niche, the “lifestyle” of an organism (see Ecological Niches), and secondary succession, the series of species that ...

Nurse logs receive much-deserved appreciation in this poetic profile by Pendreigh and Boschinger, which highlights the majestic afterlife of fallen trees. Staccato text describes the starring ...

Question: A number of studies have demonstrated that the interaction between nurse plants and their proteges changes from one of facilitation to interference as life history stage progresses. Here, I ...