Could the boreal forest be less fragile than we think? Contrary to the predictions of models that forecast its rapid decline ...

Jan Plue, Kris Verheyen, Hans Van Calster, Damien Marage, Ken Thompson, Rein Kalamees, Malgorzata Jankowska-Blaszczuk, Beatrijs Bossuyt, Martin Hermy Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 21, No. 5 ...

One of my favorite excursions of the year is my AP Environmental Science class field trip up Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, N.H. The purpose of this field trip is to collect data about a variety of ...

Changes in species composition and abundance of birds breeding in an unfragmented temperate deciduous forest in New Hampshire, USA, were studied intensively during 16 consecutive breeding seasons, ...

Fire is a hot topic these days, particularly when it comes to the boreal forest, the vast expanse of trees that stretches across Alaska, Canada and other cold northern regions. Large fires have been ...

For the first time, scientists have been successful in measuring the processes by which an entire forest "breathes," using sophisticated technology involving flux towers and new instrumentation that ...

European forest-dwelling bats require complex woodland structures at both the micro-habitat and the landscape level for successful breeding in summer. Particularly, the results from Kharkiv region ...

Jill Johnstone acknowledges funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council in Canada and in the United States from the Long Term Ecological Research Program (National Science ...